CONCEPT OF NEWS

1. News is surprise, an unexpected happening – Lord Northcliffe
2. News is anything you did not know yesterday – Turner Catledge
3. When a dog bites a man, that is not news, but when a man bites a dog, that is news – Charles A. Dana
4. News is anything that will make people talk – Charles A. Dana
5. News is a chronicle of conflict and change – John Chancellor
6. News is the timely report of events, facts or opinions that interest for significant number of people – Billiam L. Riwarsa
7. News may be defined as an accurate, unbiased account of the significant fact of a timely happening that is of interest to the readers of the newspapers that prints the account. – Willian S. Mollsby
8. News is the timely report of facts or opinion of either interest or importance or both, to considerable member of people. – Michel V. Charnley
9. The rise and falls of governments, Wars, Stories of peaceful international relations, the doings and movements and sayings of famous people, man-made disasters – those are essentially what news is – Reauter (News Agency)
10. News is people – Harold Evans
11. News is news when it is new – M.V. Kamath