hard news

“A lot of young people are not looking for hard news,” says Mr Cox.

The successful rise of “Call Her Daddy” is part of that, much to the ire of hard news journalists and reporters.

Early in my career, in the late 1990s, I covered “hard news,” including cops and courts in Philadelphia.

“The AP had always been cautious, or seemed to be, about covering hard news. But that was the very thing Buell encouraged.”

Osgood was a broadcaster who could write essays and light verse as well as report hard news, and he worked radio and television with equal facility.