news cycle

English

Etymology

US origin, 1920s.

Noun

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

• news cyclone

Translations

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

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rise and fall of news stories

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• Ukrainian: нови́нний ци́кл (novýnnyj cýkl), ци́кл нови́н (cýkl novýn)

average length of stories in the media

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See also

• 24-hour news cycle
• rolling news

Further reading

• 24-hour news cycle on Wikipedia.Wikipedia