Definition of News item

1. Noun. An item in a newspaper.

Group relationships: Newspaper, Paper
Generic synonyms: Item, Point
Specialized synonyms: Factoid

Lexicographical Neighbors of News Item

news agencies
news agency
news anchor
news anchors
news article
news bulletin
news channel
news conference
news correspondent
news crawl
news crawls
news desk
news event
news flash
news hole
news item (current term)
news leak
news media
news medias
news organisation
news organization
news photography
news program
news reader
news report
news show
news story
news ticker
news tickers
news wire

Literary usage of News item

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Documentary History of American Industrial Society by Eugene Allen Gilmore, American Bureau of Industrial Research, Carnegie Institution of Washington (1909)
"news item from Mosquito Inlet, Florida, contained in a letter from a correspondent in Charleston, SC, Sept . 12. News that on Aug. ..."

2. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1911)
"... was furnished by a reliable reporter of long experience, and was accepted and published as a news item in reliance upon its truth. (February 21, 1911. ..."

3. Plantation and Frontier Documents: 1649-1863: Illustrative of Industrial by Ulrich Bonnell Phillips (1909)
"(c) news item from the Federal Union (Milledgeville, Ga.), May 26, 1857. ... (d) news item from the New Orleans Bee, March 6, 1845. MURDER. ..."

4. German Literature in American Magazines, 1846 to 1880 by Martin Henry Haertel (1908)
"[news item.] (30 11.) 194.—Goethe, Autobiog. Ed. by Parke Godwin. Rev- (25 11. ... [news item.] (1511.) 472.—Original Dr. Faustus published in Leipzig. ..."

5. The House of Harper: A Century of Publishing in Franklin Square by Joseph Henry Harper (1912)
"news item, Thursday. The Mayor of Cleveland declines to be interviewed in ... news item, Friday. The Rev. Dr. Mendenhall declares that he never said that he ..."

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