hard news
English
Noun
- (publishing, broadcasting) Factual reportage of events which are socially or politically significant and of a serious nature, as opposed to the reporting of entertaining, humorous, or gossipy accounts of relatively inconsequential events.
- 1981 August 3, Janice Castro; David S. Jackson, “Press: Washington Loses a Newspaper”, in Time:
- Under Editor Murray J. Gart, 56, former chief of the Time-Life News Service, the Star stressed hard news and straightforward reporting over fancy writing and instant analysis.
- 1993 October 24, “News About The Magazine”, in New York Times, retrieved 6 December 2010:
- Even in the late 70's . . . women's news was regarded as, by definition, soft news. Today, issues like sexual harassment and the difficulties of single parents are understood to be, in every sense, hard news.
- 2006 November 10, David Bianculli, “Ed Earned his ‘60 mins.’ of TV Fame”, in New York Daily News, retrieved 6 December 2010:
- Ed Bradley, who died yesterday of leukemia at age 65, . . . covered hard news and soft features with equal commitment, grace and skill, and many of his stories and interviews were impossible to forget.
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References
- hard news at OneLook Dictionary Search
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