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News of the World (album)

News of the World, Queen's sixth studio album, released 28 October 1977 (EMI UK, Elektra US). Recorded July-September 1977 at Basing Street and Wessex, self-produced with Mike Stone; contains We Will Rock You and We Are the Champions; UK No. 4, US No. 3, Frank Kelly Freas robot cover.

News of the World (film)

News of the World is a 2020 American Western drama directed by Paul Greengrass, starring Tom Hanks as a newsreader escorting a girl raised by the Kiowa to her relatives.

News presenter

News presenter, also called news anchor (US) or newsreader (UK): the on-air journalist who presents a live radio or TV news program, introduces field reports, and provides continuity; term traced to 1952 US convention coverage.

News style

News style is the writing convention of news reports, centered on the inverted pyramid: summary lead first, facts in descending order. Folk history credits the Civil War telegraph, but research dates it to the 1890s.

News UK

News UK (News Corp UK & Ireland Limited) is News Corp's British and Irish media arm, publishing The Times, The Sunday Times, The Sun and The TLS and running talkSPORT, Times Radio, Talk and Virgin Radio UK, reaching about 40 million people monthly.

News24 (Australian TV channel)

News24 is the Australian 24-hour news and opinion channel formerly known as Sky News Australia, launched 19 February 1996, owned by News Corp Australia via Australian News Channel, and rebranded News24 on 27 July 2026.

NewSat Network Communications

NewSat Network Communications, also known as NewSat Limited, was an Australian satellite communications company operating teleports in Perth and Adelaide; its Jabiru-1 satellite was never launched, and it entered receivership in April 2015.

Newsboy cap

The newsboy cap, also called the Gatsby cap or baker boy hat, is a soft, round, paneled cap historically worn by working-class men and newsboys.

Newsboys

Newsboys are an Australian-formed Christian rock and worship band (1985, Mooloolaba, Queensland; later Nashville) behind hits like "Shine" and "God's Not Dead." Distinctive for its rotating frontmen (James, Furler, Tait, Agee), Wes Campbell's brand ownership, and the 2025 Michael Tait scandal and ensuing defamation and antitrust lawsuit.

Newsboys' strike of 1899

The Newsboys' strike of 1899, or Newsies strike, was a two-week New York City child labor action against Pulitzer's World and Hearst's Journal over a wartime wholesale price hike, ending with buybacks of unsold papers.

Newsday

Newsday, also known as Long Island Newsday, is a daily newspaper founded in 1940 by Alicia Patterson that serves Long Island and claims 19 Pulitzer Prizes.

NewsDog

NewsDog was a Tencent-backed news and entertainment aggregation app for India, launched in 2016, which raised $50 million in 2018 before its usage declined sharply.

Newseum

Newseum: interactive journalism and First Amendment museum by the Freedom Forum, opened Arlington 1997, Washington D.C. 2008, 11 million visitors, closed Dec. 31, 2019 after $372.5 million Johns Hopkins sale; collection now being deaccessioned.

Newsfront

Newsfront (1978) is Phillip Noyce's feature debut, an Australian drama about rival newsreel cameramen brothers Len and Frank Maguire as television ends the newsreel era; it won a then-record 8 AFI awards.

Newsha Ghaeli

Newsha Ghaeli is an Iran-born Canadian researcher and entrepreneur who led urban sensing projects at MIT's Senseable City Lab and is president and co-founder of Biobot Analytics, the first company to commercialize sewage data.

Newsies

Newsies is a 1992 Walt Disney Pictures live-action musical directed by Kenny Ortega, starring Christian Bale as Jack Kelly, based on the 1899 New York newsboys' strike; a box-office flop that became a 2012 Broadway hit musical.

Newsies (musical)

Newsies (musical): Disney stage show by Alan Menken, Jack Feldman, Harvey Fierstein, adapted from the 1992 Newsies film about the 1899 newsboys strike; Paper Mill 2011 premiere, Broadway 2012-2014, 1,004 performances, two Tony Awards.

Newsletter

Newsletter: a regular, periodic publication sent to a specific audience by mail or email. Descends from 15th-century Venetian handwritten avvisi; the English word dates to the 1670s. Today email newsletters are a major news and monetization channel: 3 in 10 US adults get news from them.

Newsmax

Newsmax: American conservative multimedia news company founded 1998 by Christopher Ruddy, based in Boca Raton, Florida; operates Newsmax TV, Newsmax.com, and Newsmax Magazine; NYSE-listed (NMAX) since April 2025 with Ruddy holding about 81.5% of voting stock.

Newsmax TV

Newsmax TV is the American conservative cable news channel of Newsmax Media, founded by Christopher Ruddy, launched nationally via DirecTV in 2014-2015, listed as NMAX in 2025, and settled Dominion for $67 million.

NewsNation

NewsNation is a Nexstar-owned American cable news network, converted from WGN America (newscast launched September 2020, rebranded March 1, 2021) into 24/7 news by 2024, marketed as centrist and reaching about 70 million households.

NewsNation Prime

NewsNation Prime is the flagship evening newscast of NewsNation, Nexstar's cable news network. Launched September 2020 as a three-hour 8-11 p.m. ET broadcast anchored by Marni Hughes, it was later reshaped around interview shows and now airs nightly with Center bias ratings.

Newspaper

Newspaper: regularly published printed or digital news publication, originating in early 17th-century Europe. Key facts: steam printing from 1814, penny press from 1833, US ad revenue collapse from $48.7B (2000) to $8.8B (2020), and the shift to subscription models.

Newspaper digitization

Newspaper digitization converts newspaper pages from paper or microfilm into digital images plus OCR text for searchable archives like Chronicling America; defined by multi-column layout analysis, article segmentation, ALTO XML, and OCR accuracy limited by source condition.

Newspaper endorsements in Canadian federal elections

Newspaper endorsements in Canadian federal elections are editorials recommending a party or leader; from 1980 to 2021, 17 papers issued 206 endorsements, 56% Conservative and 20% Liberal.

Newspaper endorsements in the United Kingdom general elections

Newspaper endorsements in the United Kingdom general elections are papers' editorial backing for parties, historically favoring the Conservatives, notably The Sun's 1997 switch to Blair.

Newspaper endorsements in the United States presidential elections

Newspaper endorsements in United States presidential elections are editorial board statements urging support for a candidate, commonly tallied since 1896 and worth about 1 to 5 points of vote share.

Newspaper hawker

Newspaper hawker, or newsboy/newsie, a street seller who buys newspapers wholesale and resells them for a margin. Began at scale with the 1833 New York Sun; marked by newsboy strikes like 1899 New York; now declining under digital media.

Newspaper Law

The Newspaper Law (新聞紙法) was a Japanese statute controlling newspapers, promulgated in 1909, which let the Home Minister ban papers and punish lèse-majesté until its abolition in 1949.

Newspaper of record

A newspaper of record, also called a paper of record, is a newspaper either legally designated to publish official notices or known for consistently accurate, in-depth reporting.