News; according to Webster,  a report of recent events;   previously unknown information.

News is what somebody somewhere wants to suppress; all the rest is advertising. 
Lord Northcliffe, British publisher.
What you see is news, what you know is background, what you feel is opinion.
Lester Markel, American journalist.
The day you write to please everyone you no longer are in journalism. You are in show business.
Journalism is often simply the industrialisation of gossip.  Andrew Marr, British journalist.
The facts fairly and honestly presented; truth will take care of itself.  William Allen White American Editor

Just some random quotes, but contrast 'news' with "opinion" which is;  a view, judgment, or appraisal formed in the mind about a particular matter.

One is about truth and facts.  The other is based on personal ideology.  There is an extreme shortage of truth and fact  and an obscene excess of manipulated opinions in the entertainment media today!  Both true and false!