news cycle

plural news cycles

1. The reporting of a particular media story, or news in general, from the first instance (breaking news) to the last, often including reporting on public and other reactions to the earlier reports, now especially via social media; (originally) the reporting for a particular schedule or deadline in broadcast or print, as in a daily paper.

   24-hour news cycle

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   to dominate the news cycle

   It is not hard, obviously, to discern a nomadic sensibility in the diffusion of such terms as "grazing," "surfing," and "browsing," or in the popularity of books by Bruce Chatwin, or in the way the continuous loop of the twenty-four-hour news cycle has become a unifying social feature.

   1998 May 28, Cullen Murphy, “The Oasis of Memory”, in The Atlantic, →ISSN

   There are some old hands in the public relations business who continue to hold on to the belief (or is it vain hope?) that the media operate around news cycles. For younger readers, I feel compelled to explain what a news cycle is. News cycles operate around deadlines when publications or broadcast news shows operate on a regular schedule. […] Unless it is a huge story, anything coming in after the deadline is going into the next news cycle.

   2003, Gerald R. Baron, Now is Too Late: Survival in an Era of Instant News, FT Press, →ISBN, page 69

   The Clinton campaign's fundamental insight was that there were at least three news cycles a day—morning, day, and night—and that a campaign could effectively shape the coverage of the evening news and morning papers by driving a story through all these news cycles and beyond.

   2012, Christopher Lehane, Mark Fabiani, Bill Guttentag, Masters of Disaster: The Ten Commandments of Damage Control, St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, page 10

   The world had followed every turn of the case so closely that the trial would permanently change the news cycle and media patterns. Americans had never been so consumed by a single news story.

   2015 October 2, Julia Zorthian, “How the O.J. Simpson Verdict Changed the Way We All Watch TV”, in Time, archived from the original on 17 Oct 2024