TY - JOUR AU - Palmer, Michael JF - Javnost-The Public TI - The Artefacts of News of Rubbish Dumps, Plays, Work, and “the First Draft of History” VL - 10 IS - 2 PY - 2003 SN - 1854-8377 PB - EURICOM UR - https://javnost-thepublic.org/article/2003/2/4/ N2 - News is a contraction of two words : "new things". And news is the report of those "new things." These reports over time can themselves become artefacts. Historians, anthropologists, sociologists -along with journalists-study news. In different ways and via a range of media, dramatists, paleo-anthropologists and poets also pinpoint-sometimes en passant-the production, transmission and impact of news. Here we look at the seemingly unlikely "cross-fertilisation" of these remarks, and pick up points made by newsmen working at speed to capture "a defining moment," a story and its impact. U1 - Print ISSN: 1318-3222 ER -