Topic Thesaurus
Roget's Thesaurus

News

Nouns
  • news
  • information etc. Information
  • budget of news, budget of information
  • intelligence, tidings. word, advice, message
  • dispatch, despatch
  • telegram, cable, marconigram, wire, communication, errand, embassy. report, rumor, hearsay, flying rumor, news stirring, cry, buzz, bruit, fame
  • talk, scandal, eavesdropping
  • town tattle, table talk
  • tittle tattle
  • canard, topic of the day, idea afloat. bulletin, fresh news, stirring news
  • glad tidings
  • flash, news just in
  • on-the-spot coverage
  • live coverage. old story, old news, stale news, stale story
  • chestnut [Slang]. narrator etc. (describe) Description
  • newsmonger, scandalmonger
  • talebearer, telltale, gossip, tattler. [study of news reporting] journalism. [methods of conveying news] media, news media, the press, the information industry
  • newspaper, magazine, tract, journal, gazette, publication etc. Publication
  • radio, television, ticker (electronic information transmission). [organizations producing news reports] [methods of conveying news] United Press International, UPI
  • Associated Press, AP
  • The Dow Jones News Service, DJ
  • The New York Times News Service, NYT
  • Reuters [Brit.]
  • newsman, newswoman, reporter, journalist, correspondent, foreign correspondent, special correspondent, war correspondent, news team, news department
  • anchorman, anchorwoman
  • sportscaster
  • weatherman. [officials providing news for an organization] press secretary, public relations department, public relations man.
Verbs
Adjectives
  • many-tongued
  • rumored
  • publicly rumored, currently rumored, currently reported
  • rife, current, floating, afloat, going about, in circulation, in every one's mouth, all over the town. in progress
  • live
  • on the spot
  • in person.
Adverbs
  • as the story goes, as the story runs
  • as they say, it is said
  • by telegraph, by wireless.
Phrases
  • airy tongues that syllable men's names" [Milton]
  • what's up
  • ? what's the latest
  • ? what's new
  • ? what's the latest poop.?