And, thanks to digital technologies, there are now more ways to get news than ever before.
Diseases can wipe out an entire village before officials get news of a single death.
Those who get news throughout the day on their mobile devices are more engaged news consumers.
ENGADGET: Pew Research finds 22 percent of adults in US own tablets, low-cost Android on the rise
But what kind of a way is that to get news 15 months before the new Millennium?
People can get news, music, video and other entertainment in many different ways.
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When BBC Persian launched in early 2009, the BBC was already a popular way for Iranians to get news.
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And a third of all U.S. adults now get news on a mobile device at least once a week.
ENGADGET: Pew Research finds 22 percent of adults in US own tablets, low-cost Android on the rise
Relatives went to the scene to get news of missing loved ones.
Which is why we get news today of a National Clinical Forum - an independent group of clinicians to scrutinise the LHBs' plans.
When compared to the mode of how the get news (Local TV, National TV, Online, Radio, Local paper, National Paper), online news ranks third overall.
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The browser is preferred on the smartphone as well (61% get news mostly through a browser, 28% mostly through apps and 11% use both equally).
ENGADGET: Pew Research finds 22 percent of adults in US own tablets, low-cost Android on the rise
"I came to get news of my cousins, a couple and two children who lived on the fourth floor, " Mohammed Sisse told the AFP news agency.
The Pew report, Future of Mobile News, pointed out that 22% of U.S. adults own a tablet and 64% of tablet owners get news on the device.
Samsung is delivering with an Apple-esque approach, allowing users to get news, sports, weather and photos on their TVs through a series of simple widgets powered by Yahoo!
Fully 60% of tablet news users mainly use the browser to get news on their tablet, just 23% get news mostly through apps and 16% use both equally.
ENGADGET: Pew Research finds 22 percent of adults in US own tablets, low-cost Android on the rise
What's more, 25% of get news on all four platforms.
ENGADGET: Pew Research finds 22 percent of adults in US own tablets, low-cost Android on the rise
Lee and Negrete didn't have a news radio in the car, so the only way they can get news updates is through Twitter on their cell phones, they said.
For instance, while mobile devices would allow people to get news wherever they are, most people use their tablets and smartphones for news at home, and usually just once a day.
ENGADGET: Pew Research finds 22 percent of adults in US own tablets, low-cost Android on the rise
It was rare to get news by way of Joe Pope, since he didn't talk to many people, so we probably shouldn't have known that he found Janine in the men's room.
Only 8 percent of online users and 28 percent of election news users visited the site of a candidate or campaign to get news or information about the 2000 elections, the survey stated.
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Tablet news consumers who get news more than one time during the day are also twice as likely as those who get news once a day to have paid for news on their tablet (10% versus 4%).
ENGADGET: Pew Research finds 22 percent of adults in US own tablets, low-cost Android on the rise
Most people get their news, or many people get their news through television and radio and because of the pressures on the time of these media, most of us are asked to say what we have to say in about ten seconds.
People who get news on their devices multiple times per day, on either the smartphone or tablet, tend to turn to more sources, get news from new sources, read in-depth news articles, watch news videos and send and receive news through email or social networks.
ENGADGET: Pew Research finds 22 percent of adults in US own tablets, low-cost Android on the rise
October 1, 2012-The percentage of Americans who have mobile internet access has risen dramatically in the last year, a trend that is rapidly changing how people get news and the implications for how to finance it, according to a new, detailed survey of news use on mobile devices conducted by the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism (PEJ) in collaboration with The Economist Group.
ENGADGET: Pew Research finds 22 percent of adults in US own tablets, low-cost Android on the rise
Whereas most Americans used to get their news from the same three networks over dinner, or a few influential papers on Sunday morning, we now have the option to get our information from any number of blogs or websites or cable news shows.
On Wednesday, we get more news on housing, with pending home sales data for April.
It seems nearly every day we get disappointing news about the UK economy.
Even assuming Godard does get the news, the chances of his putting in an appearance are slim.
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