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What's news?
By J.A. Garcia
Issue date: 9/14/07 Section: Features
Originally published: 9/13/07 at 3:38 PM CSTLast update: 9/13/07 at 3:37 PM CST
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To satisfy your inquiring minds, managing editor/news Rex Seline from the Fort Worth Star-Telegram and managing editor John Wilburn from the Houston Chronicle attempt to answer these questions.
"News is something that's happening, that's current, that's timely ... something that catches your eye or your ear, that's news," Seline said.
In an e-mail, Wilburn defines news as the first recorded account of what happens on any given day.
As far as where news comes from, both editors had a similar answer yet had their own take on it.
"There is nothing that restricts where it comes from. It really is the content that matters," Seline said.
Wilburn's response was news comes from everywhere. "Wherever things happen - particularly things that people find interesting, or unusual - you have news," Wilburn said.
In the newspaper, you can generally see that there are two types of stories, which journalists classify as either a news story or a feature story.
To help you spot the differences, here is what the pros said.
A news story most often concerns something serious, Wilburn said, giving examples such as the war in Iraq, a criminal trial, a train wreck or a robbery.
Seline described feature stories as being stories that may be less timely, more thoughtful or a trend piece.
Next week in In Our Pages, you will learn why some content appears only on the Internet.
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