TALKING ABOUT THE NEWS

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Hello and welcome to today's English lesson. My name is Stuart. In today's lesson
we're looking at words that we use in English to talk about the news. Let's go to the intro
Now, as I said today's lesson is talking about this topic here, which is the news or
news in English and all of these words here will come in handy when you want to talk
about this topic. So for example, if you're in an exam or you're preparing for some type of
test or you just want to talk about this topic with your friends in English, these words will
come in handy.
Now, there's a lot of different expressions here.
We're going to start with some of the simple ones. OK. We're going to talk about
the verbs that we use in English when we use this topic here. So, for example, we can
read the news, we can watch the news, we can listen to the news, we can hear the
news or we can get the news. OK. Where do you get the news from? Or where do you
get your news from? Do you read a newspaper? Do you watch television? Do you get
your news online? OK.
We can also use these verbs here when we talk about the news as well. So, for
example, you can make the news, you can make the news, if you are in the news, if you
do something and you are in the news, you make the news or you can make news. OK.
Without the article.
You can report the news. People report the news, people cover the news, we
follow the news, and the companies broadcast the news. OK. Broadcast the news. So
make, report, cover, follow and broadcast.
Now, report and cover. Normally, these are the people here that are paid to do this
job so, for example, a journalist is paid to cover or report the news. Now, a short way of
saying journalist is journo. OK. You can call a journalist a journo.
We also have a correspondent. A correspondent normally is somebody who
specializes in a particular field. So it could be a sports correspondent, a cricket
correspondent, maybe a foreign correspondent: somebody who is in another country; so
you could see the Canadian correspondent, you could see the UK correspondent, the US
correspondent; somebody who is in that particular place to talk about the news from
that country.
We also have this word here, which is columnist. The columnist is somebody who
writes a column in a newspaper every day or every week or perhaps every month. A
columnist.
A reporter: somebody who reports the news.
A newshound: somebody who chases news stories very eagerly; somebody who
goes after the news; a journalist who goes after the news is a newshound.
A negative word for a journalist is this one here, which is hack, a hack. OK. That's a
bad journalist or somebody who doesn't have a very good reputation for telling the truth,
maybe.
 And this other word here, which is paparazzi. Paparazzi, as we know a paparazzi, or
for short a pap. Pap. Somebody who takes photographs of famous people; normally in
situations that they're not expecting to have their photo taken. They get tapped by the
paparazzi.
These are examples of gutter press or muckraking, where you try to get negative
information about somebody, sometimes. Somebody famous. OK. So you go muckraking:
you try to get bad or negative information in order to put that in the newspaper or a
magazine. OK. The paparazzi, the gutter press or muckraking.
. Now, another word that we can use when we talk about the news is the press. We
can talk about the press. OK.
We can talk about a news agency. A news agency, for example, Reuters or
Associated Press. News agencies. They have journalists all around the world getting
stories and then they sell those stories to news outlets. OK.
News outlets are where we get the news: a newspaper, a television station, a radio
station is a news outlet. A lot of the time. OK.
Now, when we talk about the news, remember that it is singular even though
there's an s on the end; it is singular, so we say the news is. And if you want to talk about
a specific part of the news, something that you read in the paper, we have to use an item
of news or a piece of news or a news item. OK. We can't say a news: I saw a news on the
television, I saw a news in the paper; we have to say a piece of news or an item of news.
Now, news normally deals with current affairs, or current events; things that are
happening in the world at the moment: current affairs or current events.
And news can be divided into print news, online news. So print news in the
newspapers; online news on the Internet and broadcast news, which is television, radio.
And also a popular topic nowadays is fake news. You've probably heard about this
topic here: fake news. Donald Trump, the President of the USA, likes to use this word
here: fake news, all the time. And fake news of course is something that is manipulated
or perhaps not necessarily the truth, therefore fake.
Now for news to be in the paper, on radio, it has to be newsworthy, it has to be
worthy of news, meaning that it has to be a good story; something that will interest
people. OK. A newsworthy story can hit the headlines, meaning that it gets on to the
front page of the paper or the main part of the news on television or radio.
If a story is new, it can be hot off the press and also something can be front page
news. Unfortunately, a lot of the time terrorist attacks are front page news in a lot of
countries in Europe, Australia, the US. A front page news. So, things that are on the front
page are the most important parts of the news.
So all of these words we can use in English when we want to talk about the news.
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Have a good day. Bye.