World news or international news is the news media jargon for the reporting of global events. Often the term refers to stories that come from or concern foreign countries, though it can also be applied to a single region within a country or even a topic as broad as world economics. It may also refer to a newspaper’s or television newscast’s focus on those events. A reporter based abroad, who files news to his or her home country newspaper or television station is referred to as a correspondent. Those who work for multiple news organizations, often a mix of major newspapers and television stations, are called stringers.
The term may also be used to describe a news program that covers international news, though in most cases the news is presented on an over-night newscast rather than an early morning or evening broadcast. This can be a general or topical news program, or it may be a repurposed segment from another news program.
Often, news on the world stage will be followed by a brief report on local or national events. The anchors of the world news programs often check in with their ABC affiliates’ late-night news producers to find out what stories are on the horizon for the local market. Some of the news programs will pre-empt local newscasts to cover breaking stories, a practice known as bumping. For example, WKBW-TV in Buffalo, New York, would bump its nightly local news to air World News Now during a blizzard. Other news outlets, such as WOAY-TV in Oak Hill, West Virginia, will run America This Morning until its local news begins at 6 a.m.
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