news

information about current events and topics of public interest, broadcast or published through various media channels
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Summary

news is a television genre[1]. news ranks in the top 2% of television genre entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (6,496 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Instance of: industry[3], data set[4], radio genre[5]
  • Subclass of: work[6]
  • Commons category: News[7]
  • Unicode character: 📡[8]
  • Topic's main category: Category:News[9]
  • Topic's main Wikimedia portal: Portal:Current events[10]
  • Described by source: Basque Literature Terms Dictionary[11]
  • Different from: Vest[12], Wiadomości[13], news article[14], Naujiena[15], News[16]
  • Hashtag: current_events[17]
  • Practiced by: news presenter[18]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[19]
  • Model item: Tagesthemen[20], Zeit im Bild[21]
  • Social media followers: 35,600,000[22], 36,300,000[23], 36,100,000[24], 35,900,000[25]
  • P14541: 4DhqPw[26]

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Influence

Things named for news include newspaper[27], a product category[28].

Why It Matters

news has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[29] news is known by 93 alternative names across languages and contexts.[30]

Entities named for news include newspaper[27], a product category[28].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [28] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [29] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [30] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 20d ago · Susmuffin · 2026-09-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → current-events, news
    Different from → Vest, Wiadomości, news article +2
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: news, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289952468|news (#289952468)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]] #mix'n'match"
  2. 7w ago · Peter F. Patel-Schneider · 2026-08-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → 4DhqPw
    Wikidata description → information about current events and topics of public interest, broadcast or pub
    Subclass of → work
    "/* wbremoveclaims-remove:1| */ Subclass of: communication"
  3. 14w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-07-04 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → current-events, news
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: current-events, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289924105|current events (#289924105)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's "
  4. 18w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → h0005087-zpravodajstvi
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: h0005087-zpravodajstvi, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259495|batch #259495]]"
  5. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Different from → Vest, Wiadomości, news article +2
    Euronews topic id → news
    Local thumb → —
    Subclass of → work
    + 12 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|8 */ Yso id: 13915, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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