It Depends on what the Defintion of Is, Is.
The defintion of Breaking News: Breaking or non-routine news is defined as hard, unplanned news that takes the newsroom by surprise, such as a plane crash or earthquake. Breaking news cannot be predicted. It is also news that is immediate, happening right now or within the past few minutes, up to an hour.
In the six years I've been at 19, I believe we've always used that as a general rule for breaking news. If there is a big story that happened several hours ago and we have new information we always say it's a developing story or there's new information. We would never take a story that happened in the early morning hours and still call it breaking news at 5pm that evening. What is breaking about it all those hours later? This July 20th, you might as well say, "Breaking News, man walked on the moon on this day in 1969."
In the six years I've been at 19, I believe we've always used that as a general rule for breaking news. If there is a big story that happened several hours ago and we have new information we always say it's a developing story or there's new information. We would never take a story that happened in the early morning hours and still call it breaking news at 5pm that evening. What is breaking about it all those hours later? This July 20th, you might as well say, "Breaking News, man walked on the moon on this day in 1969."
posted by Carson Clark @ 5:55 PM
1 Comments:
At 10:42 PM,
OUWxGirl said…
That's always bugged me. Newspeople break in to say oh, there's a car chase in California or oops, there's a cat in a tree or something.
One of my online friends was telling me the other day that he got a news alert on email telling him the winner of the Westminster Dog Show. I love dogs probably more than the next person, but since when is that breaking news?
*rolls eyes*
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