Breaking news, interchangeably termed late-breaking news and known as a special report or special coverage or news flash, is a current issue that broadcasters feel warrants the interruption of scheduled programming or current news in order to report its details.
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Many times, breaking news is used after the news organization has already reported on the story.
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For instance, ABC's breaking news report involving the April 2017 Shayrat missile strike took into account a new episode of the series Scandal, where the show was resumed right at the point of interruption twice in the Eastern and Central time zones for those reports.
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On radio, the process of a breaking news story is somewhat the same, though some different considerations are made for the medium.
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For instance, a breaking news theme is required by default to have an urgent tenor and be used only for the purpose of true breaking news or bulletins.
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Stations are careful about what stories are relayed during play-by-play broadcasts of professional and college sports, as those are the programs most listened to on the radio, so there, breaking news coverage is often limited to only commercial breaks or a promise of 'details later' after the event, within a station identification.
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Instant Breaking news became possible with the invention of the telegraph in the 1840s.
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The term breaking news has come to replace the older use of news bulletin, with the latter term relegated to only the most extraordinary of events.
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Not all viewers agree that stories assigned as breaking news rise to the significance or level of interest that warrant such a designation.
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However, "special report" has been de-emphasized by cable Breaking news channels in the United States, as both Fox News Channel and CNN now use that phrase for regular programming; Fox News carries Special Report with Bret Baier, a daily political affairs program, while CNN's Special Report is a catch-all banner for CNN's library documentary and true crime programming.
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The term is often redundant, as all news is by definition breaking, and in some ways 'breaking news' means 'no news yet'.
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