Any daily journalist will tell you that one of the most important secrets of his trade is the trick of making it appear that there is news when there is no news.

-Orwell, George pseudonym of  Eric Arthur Blair
  In the Tribune, 21  Apr.

Literature is news that news.

-Pound, Ezra Loomis
STAYS1934  TheABC of Reading, ch.2.

   What a newspaper needs in its news, in its headlines, and on its editorial page is terseness, humor, descriptive power, satire, originality, good literary style, clever condensation and accuracy, accuracy, accuracy.

-Pulitzer,Joseph
c.1910  Quoted in Alleyne Ireland An Adventure with a Genius, ch.4.

Communications today puts a special emphasis on what happens next, for an able, sophisticated and competitive press knows that what happens today is no longer newsöit is what isgoing to happen tomorrow that is the object of interest and concern.

-Rusk, (David) Dean
  At Time's 40th anniversary dinner,17 May.

   The remarkable legion of the unremarked, whose individual opinions are not colorful or different enough to make news, but whose collective opinion, when crystallized, can make history.

-Safire,William
  Of the so-called'silent majority'. Safire's New Political Dictionary.

Thenewspaper is of necessitysomethingof a monopoly, and its first duty is to shun the temptations of a monopoly. Its primary office is the gathering of News. At the peril of its soul it must see that the supply is not tainted. Neither in what it gives, nor in what it does not give, nor in the mode of presentation, must the unclouded face of Truth suffer wrong.Comment is free, but facts are sacred.

-Scott, C(harles) P(restwich)
  Of the newspaper industry. In the Manchester Guardian, special centenary issue, 6 May.

Came through cold roads to as cold news.

-Scott, Sir Walter
  Journal,16 Jan, referring to the financial collapse of his publisher, Constable, which led directly to Scott's own bankruptcy.

You will find that the truth is often unpopular and the contest between agreeable fancy and disagreeable fact is unequal. For, in the vernacular, we Americans are suckers for good news.

-Stevenson, Adlai E(wing)
  Speech, Michigan, 8 Jun.

It takes yourenemyand your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart; the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.

-Twain, Mark pseudonym of  Samuel Langhorne Clemens
  Following the Equator, ch.45.

News is what a chap who doesn't care much about anything wants to read. And it's only news until he's read it. After that it's dead.

-Waugh, Evelyn Arthur StJohn
  Scoop, bk.1, ch.5.