breaking story
Just-emerged headline event
A breaking story is a news event unfolding in real time, still developing as it's being reported.
The term emphasizes urgency and incompleteness—details may change as more information emerges: We interrupt this program for a breaking story.
Breaking news is the more common phrase, but breaking story emphasizes the narrative arc of events as they develop.
- scoopFirst-reported story
- exclusiveLimited to one group
- hot off the pressRecently published or released
- headlineNews article title
- front pageNewspaper's opening display
urgent · developing · news flash · newsflash · reporter · journalist · press conference · bulletin · stop the presses · leak · anonymous source · scandal · press · coverage · media frenzy · deadline · editor · viral
- news termsreporter, journalist, anchor, newscaster, broadcaster
- war journalismwar correspondent, war photography, war zone, embedded reporter, embedded journalism
- informationdata, facts, details, knowledge, intel
- newsnews, headlines, headline, news alert, news bulletin
- journalismreporters, interview, editors, student editors, school paper
- TV lingoon air, off air, showrunner, cliffhanger, cue