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Newport Beach, California

Newport Beach is a coastal city in Orange County, California, incorporated on September 1, 1906, known for Newport Bay's harbor, eight miles of beaches, and some of the state's highest home values.

Newport County A.F.C.

Newport County A.F.C. (the Exiles) is a Welsh football club in EFL League Two, playing at Rodney Parade. Founded 1912, wound up 1989, refounded as Newport AFC, renamed Newport County AFC in 1999, back in the Football League since 2013.

Newport Folk Festival

Newport Folk Festival: annual American music festival in Newport, Rhode Island, first held July 1959 at Freebody Park, co-founded by George Wein and Pete Seeger; famous for Bob Dylan's 1965 electric set, a 1971–1984 hiatus, and nonprofit operation at Fort Adams State Park.

Newport Folk Festival lineups by year

Newport Folk Festival lineups by year: chronological performer lists of the folk festival founded in Newport, Rhode Island in 1959 by George Wein and Albert Grossman; known for the 1959 debut at Freebody Park and Dylan's 1965 electric set.

Newport Jazz Festival

Newport Jazz Festival: annual jazz festival in Newport, Rhode Island, founded 1954 by George Wein with Elaine and Louis Lorillard's backing; landmark performances by Ellington and Davis; held at Fort Adams State Park.

Newport News Shipbuilding

Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company, founded in 1886 in Virginia, is a Huntington Ingalls Industries shipyard that builds nuclear aircraft carriers and submarines for the US Navy.

Newport News, Virginia

Newport News, Virginia: independent city on the James River, population about 183,000, home of Newport News Shipbuilding, Virginia's largest industrial employer and the only U.S. builder of nuclear aircraft carriers.

Newport Roman Villa (United Kingdom)

Newport Roman Villa, on Cypress Road, Newport, Isle of Wight, is a late 3rd-century Romano-British winged-corridor farmhouse with a preserved bath suite and hypocaust, discovered in 1926 and now a Scheduled Ancient Monument museum.

Newport Transporter Bridge

The Newport Transporter Bridge is a transporter bridge carrying vehicles and pedestrians by gondola across the River Usk in Newport, Wales, opened in 1906 and the largest surviving example.

Newport, Rhode Island

Newport, Rhode Island: coastal city on southern Aquidneck Island, founded 1639 by Coddington and Easton; colonial seaport, Gilded Age mansions, tourism economy, 25,163 residents (2020).

Newport, Wales

Newport (Casnewydd) is a Welsh city and unitary authority on the River Usk near the English border. Population about 159,600 in 2021, rising to 168,584 by mid-2025; home to the Roman legionary fortress of Caerleon and a semiconductor and convention economy.

Newquay Zoo

Newquay Zoo: Cornwall's largest zoo, 13 acres in Trenance Leisure Park, opened 26 May 1969, member of BIAZA, EAZA, WAZA; operated by Dutch company Libéma since January 2026 with a planned £10 million investment.

NewReno

NewReno is a modification to TCP's fast recovery algorithm, specified in RFC 6582 in April 2012, that keeps recovering after partial acknowledgments when several segments are lost from a single window.

Newrez

Newrez is a large American nonbank mortgage lender and loan servicer owned by Rithm Capital, serving more than 4 million homeowners and servicing over $850 billion in loans.

Newry

Newry (An tIúr) is a city in Northern Ireland straddling counties Armagh and Down near the Irish border, known for the 1742 Newry Canal, the first summit-level canal in the British Isles, its linen and port heritage, and its position on the Belfast–Dublin corridor.

News

News is verified information about recent events distributed to the public, once defined by professional journalists but now shaped by audiences, platforms, and algorithms in the digital age.

NEWS (group)

NEWS (ニュース) is a Japanese idol group formed under Johnny & Associates in 2003, now a trio holding the Oricon record of 18 consecutive number-one albums.

News 12 Networks

News 12 Networks: group of 24-hour regional cable news channels in the New York tri-state area, also called News 12. Launched 1986 as News 12 Long Island, first US 24-hour regional cable news service; owned by Altice USA/Optimum with seven local channels.

News agency

News agency (wire service, press agency): an organization licensing news text, photos, and video to media subscribers rather than publishing directly. Havas (1835), AP (1846), Reuters (1851), AFP (1944); global trio AP, Reuters, AFP with cooperative, listed-company, and special-statute ownership.

News aggregator

News aggregator: service collecting news from many publishers into one interface, via RSS, Atom, APIs, or crawlers. Includes feed readers (Feedly, Inoreader) and algorithmic platforms (Google News, Apple News, NewsBreak).

News broadcasting

News broadcasting: distribution of news reports via radio, television, and internet platforms, also called broadcast journalism. Began with US radio news in 1920, TV news in 1940, CNN's 24-hour format in 1980; by 2026 social media and video networks (54%) overtook TV (52%) as the most used news source.

News Corp

News Corp (Nasdaq: NWS, NWSA) is the global media and information services company created in June 2013 when the original News Corporation split from 21st Century Fox. Murdoch-family controlled; segments include Dow Jones, Digital Real Estate Services, Book Publishing, and News Media; fiscal 2026 revenue $9.03 billion.

News Corp Australia

News Corp Australia, the Australian arm of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp (formerly News Limited, 1922), publishes metro and regional newspapers, news.com.au, and digital brands, holding about 59% of metropolitan and national print media.

News Corporation

News Corporation (News Corp) is a New York–headquartered global media company in news services, digital real estate, and book publishing, founded in 1979 by Rupert Murdoch, split from 21st Century Fox in 2013, owner of the Wall Street Journal, The Sun, and The Times.

News from Nowhere

News from Nowhere is an 1890 utopian romance by William Morris, serialized in Commonweal, depicting a moneyless communist England reached by its narrator in a dream.

News International phone hacking scandal

News International phone hacking scandal (Hackgate, NOTW scandal): illegal voicemail interception and blagging at Murdoch's News of the World, exposed 2011 after Milly Dowler reports, closing the paper, convicting Coulson, and prompting the Leveson Inquiry.

News media

News media are the organizations and channels that gather and distribute reported current-events information, spanning print, radio, TV, digital platforms, and AI chatbots, with a 2026 global shift to social media as the dominant news source.

News Media Alliance

News/Media Alliance (formerly Newspaper Association of America): nonprofit trade association in Arlington, Virginia representing over 2,200 U.S. news and magazine publishers; CEO Danielle Coffey; advocacy on copyright, AI, and antitrust.

News Media Association

News Media Association (NMA), UK trade body for national, regional and local news publishers, formed 2014 by merger of Newspaper Society and Newspaper Publishers Association; represents 900+ titles, a £4 billion sector, lobbying on press freedom, digital markets and local journalism.

News of the World

News of the World was a British Sunday tabloid, founded in 1843, long Britain's biggest-selling Sunday paper, and closed in 2011.