News vs. Information — What's the Difference?

An update or announcement.

A collection of related data.

A fresh account or intelligence.

Knowledge gained through study or experience.

Reports of recent events or facts.

Facts or details about a subject.

Information broadcasted or printed by media outlets.

Information can be thought of as the resolution of uncertainty; it answers the question of "What an entity is" and thus defines both its essence and the nature of its characteristics. The concept of information has different meanings in different contexts.

Matters of current interest or relevance.

Knowledge or facts learned, especially about a certain subject or event.

News is information about current events. This may be provided through many different media: word of mouth, printing, postal systems, broadcasting, electronic communication, or through the testimony of observers and witnesses to events.

The act of informing or the condition of being informed; communication of knowledge

New information of interest.

(Computers) Processed, stored, or transmitted data.

Information about current events disseminated via media.

A numerical measure of the uncertainty of an experimental outcome.

Posts published on newsgroups

(Law) A formal accusation of a crime made by a public officer rather than by grand jury indictment in instances in which the offense, if a federal crime, is not a felony or in which the offense, if a state crime, is allowed prosecution in that manner rather than by indictment.

To report; to make known.

That which resolves uncertainty; anything that answers the question of "what a given entity is".

A report of recent occurrences; information of something that has lately taken place, or of something before unknown; fresh tidings; recent intelligence.

Things that are or can be known about a given topic; communicable knowledge of something.

Something strange or newly happened.

The act of informing or imparting knowledge; notification.

A bearer of news; a courier; a newspaper.

A statement of criminal activity brought before a judge or magistrate; in the UK, used to inform a magistrate of an offence and request a warrant; in the US, an accusation brought before a judge without a grand jury indictment.

New information about specific and timely events;

(obsolete) The act of informing against someone, passing on incriminating knowledge; accusation.

New information of any kind;

The systematic imparting of knowledge; education, training.

A program devoted to news;

The creation of form; the imparting of a given quality or characteristic; forming, animation.

Information reported in a newspaper or news magazine;

[…] the meaning that a human assigns to data by means of the known conventions used in its representation.

The quality of being sufficiently interesting to be reported in news bulletins;

(Christianity) Divine inspiration.

A service provided by telephone which provides listed telephone numbers of a subscriber.

(information theory) Any unambiguous abstract data, the smallest possible unit being the bit.

As contrasted with data, information is processed to extract relevant data.

(information technology) Any ordered sequence of symbols (or signals) (that could contain a message).

The act of informing, or communicating knowledge or intelligence.

Any fact or set of facts, knowledge, news, or advice, whether communicated by others or obtained by personal study and investigation; any datum that reduces uncertainty about the state of any part of the world; intelligence; knowledge derived from reading, observation, or instruction.

A proceeding in the nature of a prosecution for some offense against the government, instituted and prosecuted, really or nominally, by some authorized public officer on behalf of the government. It differs from an indictment in criminal cases chiefly in not being based on the finding of a grand jury. See Indictment.

A measure of the number of possible choices of messages contained in a symbol, signal, transmitted message, or other information-bearing object; it is usually quantified as the negative logarithm of the number of allowed symbols that could be contained in the message; for logarithms to the base 2, the measure corresponds to the unit of information, the hartley, which is log210, or 3.323 bits; called also information content. The smallest unit of information that can be contained or transmitted is the bit, corresponding to a yes-or-no decision.

Useful facts, as contrasted with raw data; as, among all this data, there must be some interesting information.

A message received and understood

A collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn;

Knowledge acquired through study or experience or instruction

(communication theory) a numerical measure of the uncertainty of an outcome;

Formal accusation of a crime

Data processed or stored by computers.

Intelligence or news.

Generally, news pertains to recent events, but it can also include updates on ongoing situations.

Yes, a fact can be news when it's first reported and becomes general information over time.

Yes, all news is a form of information, but not all information is news.

Yes, information can be outdated, while news typically emphasizes current events.

Editorial teams assess the relevance, timeliness, and significance of events to determine newsworthiness.

To ensure the accuracy and reliability of the information being conveyed.

Ideally, information should be factual, but it can sometimes be incorrect or misleading.

They can be both; they provide information but are often tied to current events or news topics.

Consider the source, check for citations, and cross-reference with other reputable sources.

Technology, especially the internet, has enabled faster dissemination and broader reach of news.