news gathering
Collecting current events
News gathering is the process of collecting information for journalistic reporting—conducting interviews, researching records, attending events, monitoring sources.
The term emphasizes the investigative and research phase that precedes writing or broadcasting: The new regulations would restrict news gathering at public protests.
Also spelled as one word: newsgathering.
- interviewingFormal questioning session
- on the groundIn contact with earth
- camerasVisual recording devices
- press releasesFormal announcements for journalists
- whistleblowersThose exposing organizational misconduct
anonymous sources · off the record · fact-checking · microphones · media scrum · press pass · accuracy · eyewitness accounts · public interest · investigative reporting · deep throat · confidentiality · government records · drones · impartiality · public forums · data analysis · smartphones
- journalismreporters, interview, editors, student editors, school paper
- journalism reportinglive reporting, field reporting, investigative journalism, feature writing, reporter
- satellite usesGPS, weather forecasting, broadcasting, communications, navigation
- press freedomfreedom of the press, press freedom, media freedom, press rights, editorial freedom
news gatheringbroadcasting
Mass signal transmission
news release · publishing · reporting · press release · transmission
news gatheringcommentary
Explanatory remarks on events
opinion writing · editorializing · punditry · opinion journalism · op-ed writing
news gatheringcensorship
Official content restriction
information blackout · media blackout · cover-up · news embargo · stonewalling
news, gathering, gather, gathers, gathered, gatherer, gatherers, newer, newest