The noun news has 5 senses (first 5 from tagged texts)
1. (300) news, intelligence, tidings, word -- (new information about specific and timely events; "they awaited news of the outcome")
2. (141) news -- (new information of any kind; "it was news to me")
3. (86) news program, news show, news -- (a program devoted to news; "we watch the 7 o'clock news every night")
4. (58) news -- (information reported in a newspaper or news magazine; "the news of my death was greatly exaggerated")
5. (12) newsworthiness, news -- (the quality of being sufficiently interesting to be reported in news bulletins; "the judge conceded the newsworthiness of the trial"; "he is no longer news in the fashion world")