Aashish Mishra -
What is news really? We all think we know what news is – the hourly bulletins on television, the printed information on newspapers or the contents media disseminate. But is that really news? What does the word “news” mean? What does it denote and connote? Dive deeper into these questions, we might realise that we do not actually know what news is. Over the years, the word entered the common vocabulary and became so widely used that it lost all meaning and subsequently, its validity.
Now, in the era of fake news and misinformation, perhaps it is time to reclaim what news originally stood for and to do that, we must take a look back at what news originally meant. Going by the dictionary definition, news is any piece of fact or information that is collected from various sources, verified for accuracy and reliability and disseminated to the wider audience. The word “news” is derived from the Latin word “Novo” and the Sanskrit word “Nava” which both mean new. So, as the name suggests, news is a collection of new happenings. Read full article in The Rising Nepal
