news coverage

Journalism about events

News coverage is the reporting and presentation of current events by journalists and media outlets.

The term encompasses both the act of covering news and the resulting content: The story received extensive news coverage.

Coverage can be praised as thorough or criticized as biased, sensationalized, or inadequate: 24-hour news coverage of the trial, The candidate complained about unfair news coverage.

Opposites
media content type

news coveragefiction

Imagined narrative work

reality TV · sitcoms · soap operas · game shows · advertising

information flow

news coveragenews blackout

Suppression of information release

censorship · suppression · cover-up · secrecy · concealment

attention to events

news coverageunderreporting

Stating fewer than actual

willful ignorance · looking the other way

Family

news, coverage

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