Meaning of soft news | Babel Free

Definitions

Broadcast news mainly intended to entertain rather than to inform.

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Examples

“"Segment 3" established the daily presence of a five-minute back-of-the-book feature on network newscasts. Although previously the TV networks had usually featured soft news at the end⟳ of their evening news, on some days the soft-news feature did not make⟳ it on the air because of the judged newsworthiness of the hard news.”

“"We have⟳ to cover⟳ the hard news always, but we have⟳ to cover⟳ the soft news to meet⟳ demand⟳," said Monique Villa, the managing director of Reuters Media, the division that contains its picture and news wires.”

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