News is information about current events. This may be provided through many different media: word of mouth, printing, postal systems, broadcasting, electronic communication, or through the testimony of observers and witnesses to events. News is sometimes called "hard news" to differentiate it from soft media.
A girl holding The Washington Post newspaper about the first Moon landing – Apollo 11, July 21, 1969
Woodcut by Tommaso Garzoni depicting a town crier with a trumpet
Reproduction of Kaiyuan Za Bao court newspaper from the Tang dynasty
Some European postal routes in 1563
A newspaper is a periodical publication containing written information about current events and is often typed in black ink with a white or gray background. Newspapers can cover a wide variety of fields such as politics, business, sports, art, and science. They often include materials such as opinion columns, weather forecasts, reviews of local services, obituaries, birth notices, crosswords, editorial cartoons, comic strips, and advice columns.
A girl reading a 21 July 1969 copy of The Washington Post reporting on the Apollo 11 Moon landing
Front page of The New York Times on Armistice Day, 1918
Title page of Johann Carolus' Relation from 1609, the first newspaper
Josef Danhauser's portrait Newspaper readers, 1840
