news cycle

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English

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Etymology

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US origin, 1920s.[1]

Noun

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news cycle (plural news cycles)

  1. The reporting of a particular media story, from the first instance to the last, often including reporting on public and other reactions to the earlier reports.
    • April 14 2022, Delia Cai, “Severance, the New York Times’s Twitter Guidelines, and the Forever Illusion of Work-Life Balance”, in Vanity Fair‎[1]:
      Every other news cycle, when any particular quake related to someone saying something stupid or disagreeable or out of touch or oftentimes simply oversharey occurs, it triggers a recurrent tsunami of contemplation of why any of us in the industry are on the hellsite at all.
  2. The rise and fall of news stories, on a collective basis.
  3. The average length of the rise and fall of stories in the media.

Derived terms

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Translations

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reporting of a particular media story from the first instance to the last

See also

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References

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  1. ^ “news cycle”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

Further reading

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