Breaking News brings you the biggest stories as they happen, 24 hours a day, from hundreds of news sources across the globe. On many stories, we combine eyewitness accounts shared on social media from people at the scene.
Breaking news means the very latest,up-to-date news-stuff which is still happening,or has only just happened.
On the Online Google explanations, the definition of breaking news means: the first publication of news material to a significantly sized potential audience.
I ignored the issue of whether 1 people read it or 1 million people read the breaking news and focussed on it being published first through a medium which could potentially reach a significant number of people.
Maybe the idea of ‘breaking news’ is simply a construct of journalists and, to a lesser extent, audiences. So another way of tackling the issue would be to ask audiences or journalists how they define breaking news and use their answers to formulate a definition.
“Breaking news” indicates news that is so urgent and important that the television stations must stop/interrupt (“break”) their planned programming to tells us the news immediately. For example, during a hurricane, a TV series might be interrupted by “breaking news” about the hurricane’s path and the damage its has caused.
