What's the difference between news and standfirst?
News
Definition:
(n) A report of recent occurences; information of something that has lately taken place, or of something before unknown; fresh tindings; recent intelligence.
(n) Something strange or newly happened.
(n) A bearer of news; a courier; a newspaper.
Example Sentences:
(1) Lucy and Ed will combine coverage of hard and breaking news with a commitment to investigative journalism, which their track record so clearly demonstrates”.
(2) Today’s figures tell us little about the timing of the first increase in interest rates, which will depend on bigger picture news on domestic growth, pay trends and perceived downside risks in the global economy,” he said.
(3) Gallic wine sales in the UK have been tumbling for the past 20 years, but the news that France, once the largest exporter to these shores, has slipped behind Australia, the United States, Italy and now South Africa will have producers gnawing their knuckles in frustration.
(4) A Swedish news agency said it had received an email warning before the blasts in which a threat was made against Sweden's population, linked to the country's military presence in Afghanistan and the five-year-old case of caricatures of the prophet Muhammad by Swedish artist Lars Vilks.
(5) Fatah leader Yahya Rabah said the organisation would celebrate "with our brothers in Hamas", the Ma'an news agency reported.
(6) But the Franco-British spat sparked by Dave's rejection of Angela and Nicolas's cunning plan to save the euro has been given wings by news the US credit agencies may soon strip France of its triple-A rating and is coming along very nicely, thank you. "
(7) Meanwhile Ed Miliband, the Labour leader, waiting anxiously for news of the scale of the Labour advance in his first nationwide electoral test, will urge the electorate not to be duped by the promise of a coalition mark 2, predicting sham concessions by the Conservatives .
(8) And perhaps it’s this longevity that accounts for her popularity: a single tweet from Williams (who has 750,000 followers) about the series will prompt a Game Of Thrones news story.
(9) Channel 4 News said on Friday that Manji and the programme’s producer, ITN, had made an official complaint to press regulator Ipso.
(10) Evidence of the industrial panic surfaced at Digital Britain when Sly Bailey, the chief executive of Trinity Mirror, suggested that national newspaper websites that chased big online audiences have "devalued news" , whatever that might mean.
(11) The detail of all of that will come over the coming months,” Cormann told Sky News.
(12) We are firmly opposed to that," an unidentified spokesman from the ministry of industry and information technology told the state news agency, Xinhua.
(13) One might expect that a similar news spike and rebounding of support for stricter gun control can happen, given President Obama's new push.
(14) George Osborne said the 146,000 fall in joblessness marked "another step on the road to full employment" but Labour and the Trades Union Congress (TUC) seized on news that earnings were failing to keep pace with prices.
(15) Chris Pavlou, former vice chairman of Laiki, told Channel 4 news that Anastasiades was given little option by the troika but to accept the draconian terms, which force savers to take a hit for the first time in the fifth bailout of a eurozone country.
(16) Meanwhile the Brooklyn Nets, who have been dealing with nothing but bad news since the start of the regular season, will be without Paul Pierce for 2-4 weeks, also due to a right hand fracture.
(17) The New York Times also alleged that the Met had not passed full details about how many people were victims of the illegal practice to the CPS because it has a history of cooperation with News International titles.
(18) Her black persona unravelled this week when Ruthanne and Larry Dolezal, a couple named on her Montana birth certificate as her biological parents, told Spokane’s KREM 2 News that her ancestry was German and Czech, with traces of Native American.
(19) Prof Bryan Williams, chair of the working party that developed the chart, said: "Many changes in healthcare are incremental but this new National Early Warning Score (News) has the potential to transform patient safety in our hospitals and improve patient outcomes.
(20) This is welcome news but it needs to be borne in mind that the manufacturing sector is still far from racing ahead and serious doubts remain about the strength of demand for manufactured goods over the medium term, particularly once stimulative measures start being withdrawn.
Standfirst
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) The original article's standfirst said Mark Ravenhill was a Family Guy and Will & Grace writer.
(2) It mistakenly referred to National Rail instead of Network Rail in the standfirst.
(3) The standfirst (summary) incorrectly quoted Alex Jones talking about "1778 commencing again".
(4) • This article was changed on Tuesday 10 June 2014 to amend the standfirst.
(5) • The standfirst on this story was amended on 27 September 2013 to remove an incorrect reference to the UK information officer
(6) • The standfirst of this article was corrected on Sunday 15 December 2013 because it stated that Andy Murray was the first Briton to win Wimbledon since 1936.
(7) In the standfirst we mistakenly said the assault had taken place in New York when it was in fact Washington.
(8) The standfirst in the original said "over half of Britain's schools" where over half of England's was meant.
(9) • The standfirst of this article was changed on 7 March 2016 to better reflect the content of the story.
(10) An editing error in the standfirst suggested that the world population would grow to 9 million by 2050.
(11) The standfirst of this article was modified on 14 October 2015 to remove ambiguity.
(12) But 48 hours with Mrs Merkel and he’s already repeatedly committing to open door immigration again.” • The standfirst on this article was amended on 8 January 2015 to better reflect the story.
(13) It originally said there were 250 evictions every day in 2015 in the standfirst.
(14) • The standfirst on this article was corrected on 12 July 2013; F-16 jets, not F-14s, were supplied to Egypt.
(15) The standfirst (summary) of the original incorrectly stated that photographs could could fetch up to £50,000.
(16) • This article was originally published by the Birmingham Post , where Bill Drummond is writing a weekly column as part of his three-month residency at Eastside Projects, Digbeth • The standfirst of this article was amended on Friday 9 May 2014 to more accurately reflect the piece
(17) The standfirst of the original incorrectly stated that the shooting happened at a California health club, instead of an office Christmas party for employees of San Bernardino County health department.
(18) • This article was amended on 21 June 2012 to remove a misplaced apostrophe in the standfirst.
(19) Someone has to be in control of it because if not the strongest will take over.” This article was amended on 3 April to modify the headline and standfirst.
(20) • This article was amended on Monday 29 April 2013 to correct the standfirst, which had become garbled during the editing process.