spot news
Americannoun
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the latest news, reported immediately.
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news that occurs unexpectedly.
Example Sentences
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He has worked as deputy chief in the New York corporate news bureau, an editor in the technology bureau and led reporters on Dow Jones Newswires’s spot news team.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
Later in his career, Caulkin was part of an AP team that won the Pulitzer Prize for spot news photography for their coverage of the 1998 bombings of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 24, 2022
"I do a little bit of everything, but primarily I work on human interest stories and not a lot of spot news stories."
From Fox News ● Sep. 10, 2021
During an earlier stint in Washington in the 1990s, she was AP’s assistant bureau chief for news, running spot news coverage and overseeing the foreign affairs and national security beats.
From Washington Post ● May 11, 2021
The front office thought the radio car would give us a break in spot news coverage, and I guessed as wrong as they did.
From The Day of the Boomer Dukes by Ed Emshwiller
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