Journalism for Kids : Chapter 1 : What is NEWS ?
Every morning, when you wake up and want to know what happened in the world, what do you do ?
Or do you open your newspaper and read about it?
All of us know that a newspaper contains tons of pieces of news that people all over the world read daily. A person sitting in Mumbai can get to know about various things happening all around the world if he/she just takes the time to open a newspaper and read it.
However, what exactly is the meaning of NEWS?
Well, the word ‘news’ is used to mean information from all the four directions and anywhere in between. That is, you take the first alphabets of four words, North, East, West and South, and combine them to get the word N E W S,
News! Amazing, isn’t it?
Written by admin on March 23rd, 2007 with no comments.
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