hard news

noun

, Journalism.

1. serious news of widespread import, concerning politics, foreign affairs, or the like, as distinguished from routine news items, feature stories, or human-interest stories.

Other Words From

• hard-news adjective

Example Sentences

“A lot of young people are not looking for hard news,” says Mr Cox.

From BBC

The successful rise of “Call Her Daddy” is part of that, much to the ire of hard news journalists and reporters.

From Salon

Early in my career, in the late 1990s, I covered “hard news,” including cops and courts in Philadelphia.

From New York Times

“The AP had always been cautious, or seemed to be, about covering hard news. But that was the very thing Buell encouraged.”

From Seattle Times

Osgood was a broadcaster who could write essays and light verse as well as report hard news, and he worked radio and television with equal facility.

From Seattle Times