There are many different ways of obtaining news, especially in this day and age. We can listen to it on the radio, watch it on our TVs, read it in newspapers or magazines, or get it off the internet. You could say that news is something that you get from one of those venues. But, really, it goes deeper. After all, don't we get news from our friends and family? Don't we, in a way, help the circulation of news?
Let's back up a little bit to the definition of a journalist. At its most basic, a journalist is someone who tells someone what is going on around them. So, news is what is going on around us. Something doesn't have to be on television or in the newspaper to be news. Local details, even happenings in our daily lives can be considered news. If we get news on wars from the radio, that's news. But if one of our friends tells us about something happening in her life, that's news too. Just like you don't have to be involved in a big news corporation to be a journalist, news doesn't have to be nationally broadcasted to be considered news.
References
School, Florida Virtual (2010) FLVS. Retrieved July 22, 2013, from: http://learn.flvs.net/educator/student/frame.cgi?jwelsh15*mhead12*mpos=1&spos=0&option=hidemenu&slt=(zYXlwRFSbI9Q*3493*http://learn.flvs.net/webdav/educator_journalism1_v11/index.htm
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