newsgathering

English

Etymology

news +‎ gathering

Noun

newsgathering (uncountable)

  1. The act of collecting information related to current events
    This portable camera is just the thing for on-the-spot newsgathering.
    Our network has the best newsgathering operation in the country.
    • April 14 2022, Delia Cai, “Severance, the New York Times’s Twitter Guidelines, and the Forever Illusion of Work-Life Balance”, in Vanity Fair‎:
      How does the media love Twitter? Let us count the ways: as a tech platform practically indispensable to the work of newsgathering; as a metrics system designating clear numerical value to once-squishy concepts of popularity and esteem; as a gossip-fueled lunchroom of the elites more or less available for public participation; as an arena for duking out industry controversies ranging from #MeToo to opinions about opinion pages.

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