According to Clarence Hach and Earl English
Saying that as long as there are facts, interest and audience, there is news. News according to Clarence and Earl's opinion overrides important conditions and topicalities.
According to Amak Syarifuddin
News is a report of events that are caused as material that attracts the attention of the mass media public.
According to Dja'far H Assegaf
News is a report about facts or ideas that are termed (new), chosen by the editorial staff of a daily to be broadcast, which can attract the attention of readers. Either because it is extraordinary, whether because of its importance, or its consequences, either because it includes aspects of human interest such as humor, emotions and tension.
According to William S Maulsby
News is a true and impartial narrative of facts that have important and recent meaning, which can attract the attention of newspaper readers who load the news.
According to Chilton R. Bush
news is information that is "stimulating", with information that ordinary people can feel satisfied and passionate. While Charnley himself mentioned that the news is a report about the facts or opinions of people who are bound by time, which are interesting and or important for certain people.
According to W.J.S. Purwadarminta
argues that the news is a report about one recent event. News can also be defined as new information about events that are new, important, and meaningful, which have an effect on their listeners and are relevant and appropriate for them to enjoy (Helena, 2007: 25).
According to the Oxford Paperback Dictionary published by the Oxford University Press (1979)
News can be updated as the latest events.
According to Doug Newson and James A. Wollert in News for the Mass Media (1985: 11)
News is anything that someone wants and needs to know or more broadly by the public.
According to Nasution in Alief (2008: 1)
News is a report about events or events that occur that want to be known by the public, with their actual nature, occurring in the reader's environment, regarding prominent figures, due to the effect on the reader.
According to Haris Sumadiria
News is the fastest information about ideas or ideas that are true, interesting and which are important for most of the audience, through periodical media such as radio, television, newspapers and online internet media.
According to Purnama Kusumaningrat
News is something or someone who is seen by the media as a subject worthy of being news.
According to A.M. Hoeta Soehoet
News is information about an event or content of a person's statement which according to him needs to be known to realize his philosophy of life.
Meanwhile according to Masri (2008: 58), news is:
An event or unusual event
An ordinary event, but it is done or experienced by an unusual person
A paradoxical (contradictory) event
It is normal, but not open the eyes of many people
Something important
Something urgent
Something jerks
something fun
something dangerous
something tragedy that touches humanity
and others deemed necessary to be known, interesting, and related to the interests of the reader.
So it can be said that not everything written in newspapers or magazines can be referred to as news. Advertising and cooking recipes can not be called news, which is called news is a report about an event. In other words, an event will never make news if it is not reported.
From some definitions or limitations about the news, in principle there are several important elements that must be considered from the definition, namely:
Report
Interesting and important events / events / opinions
Served as fast as possible (time-bound)