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alt=An girl holding a newspaper with the headline: 'The Eagle Has Landed' – Two Men Walk on the Moon|thumb|319x319px|An American girl holding The Washington Post newspaper about the first Moon landing – [[Apollo 11, July 21, 1969]]

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News is information about recent events that is gathered and shared with the public through media like newspapers. It matters because it keeps people informed about important happenings in the world, such as major achievements like the first Moon landing shown in this historic newspaper from 1969.

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  • Meaning
  • Etymology
  • Newness
  • Commodity
  • Tone
  • Newsworthiness
  • History
  • Folk news
  • Government proclamations
  • Early news networks
  • Asia
  • Europe
  • Rise of the newspaper
  • Newswire
  • Radio and television
  • Internet
  • News media today
  • Newspaper
  • Television
  • Internet
  • News agencies
  • Global news system
  • New World Information and Communication Order
  • Further transformation in global news flow
  • News values
  • Social organization of news production
  • News organizations
  • Relationship with institutions
  • State control
  • Public relations
  • News consumption
  • Social and cultural cohesion
  • Public sphere
  • News events
  • News making
  • Psychological effects
  • Influence
  • Influence of sponsorship
  • See also
  • References
  • Sources and further reading
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alt=An girl holding a newspaper with the headline: 'The Eagle Has Landed' – Two Men Walk on the Moon|thumb|319x319px|An American girl holding The Washington Post newspaper about the first Moon landing – [[Apollo 11, July 21, 1969]]

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.

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