30 News Examples

News

A News it's a journalistic text short that portrays a relevant or novel fact of reality. The news cut out reality as it is considered interesting for a large part of the public. For example: "Salta: another Wichí girl died of malnutrition and there are already seven minors deceased”.

A news item can be spread by different media (radio, television, newspapers, magazines) and in each one it adheres to particularities of content, form and extension.

They can deal with broad topics (political, social, economic, sports) as long as they are relevant to the public.

News features

News content

All news must answer the following questions (known as the Ws, by their initials in English):

Types and examples of news

According to the content of the news and the treatment given to it, different types of news can be identified:

Of future. They announce some event that is known in advance will occur or anticipate a change or transformation that is diagnosed from an event. For example:

• Debt: with unanimous endorsement, the Senate will sanction the project this week
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• The electoral cycle in the United States begins with the Iowa caucuses
• After Boris Johnson, Macron also receives Juan Guaidó

Immediate. They narrate the most recent events. For example:

• Air Canada plane with engine and wheel problems made its forced landing in Barajas
• Two former ministers of the Government of Evo Morales take refuge in Mexico
• Two people died after the overturning of a long-distance bus

Chronological. They narrate the events in the order in which they happened. This way of presenting the news makes it easier for the receiver to understand the event in a more complete way. This category also includes the news that narrate the life and work, in chronological order, of a personality who has passed away. For example:

• Brexit timeline: the most announced divorce
• This is how the alert for the Wuhan coronavirus has been expanding day by day
• Chronology of a crime: the day to day of the murder of the rugby players in Villa Gesell

Human interest. They are news that are intended to appeal to the emotions and feelings of the recipient. They seek to generate empathy or identification between the recipient of the news and its protagonists. For example:

• Nkosi Johnson, the child with AIDS, an icon in the fight for life
• The drama of living in terror with her children by the blows and threats of her ex-partner
• "I'm desperate": the drama of living with cancer and not accessing chemotherapy

Of ephemeris. They describe an important event or character and are broadcast on the anniversary of the character's birth or death or of an emblematic event. For example:

• From the joyous utopia to everyone's voice, it is 90 years since the birth of María Elena Walsh
• Robledo Puch turns 48 today in prison: alone and with deteriorated health
• 50 years after Simon & Garfunkel's “Bridge over Troubled Waters”, the most beautiful farewell in pop history

Of service. They disseminate useful information to the public. They are usually short and many times they are not narrated, but rather present the information in the form of a grid or list, as is the case with movie billboards or cultural agendas. For example:

• Holidays 2020: what are they and where to go every weekend of the year
• Today's street blocks, Friday, January 31, 2020
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Complementary. They complement other news of greater relevance. Both are presented jointly. The complementary usually includes some color data or focuses on a particular aspect or on one of the protagonists of the main news. For example:

• Main note: Debt: with unanimous endorsement, the Senate will sanction the project this week
• Supplementary note: Who is the senator who will lead the key session for debt and will be ‘president’ for 32 hours
• Main note: Claudio Bonadio, the federal judge who brought Cristina Kirchner to trial, died
• Supplementary note: "The last time I spoke to him he was fine," said Judge's secretary Claudio Bonadio
• Main note: China imposes censorship in the face of public anger over the epidemic
• Supplementary note: The doctor who launched the alert and is now one more patient

Of situation. They do not address an immediate event, but rather have a certain permanence in time and are of interest to society. They are news produced with greater dedication and that delve into the subject in question, approaching it from more than one approach and adding new data. His treatment invites the audience to reflect and draw their own conclusions.

• Neither alive nor dead: the journey of the seeking mothers of Sonora
• Living thanks to garbage: stories of those who work in El Borbollón
• Cocaine resurfaces and gets deadlier across the country

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