newsbreak
/ˈnuzˌbreɪk/
noun
- A short interruption in a radio or television program to give a news update.
- The station interrupted the game for a newsbreak about the storm.
- I only caught the headlines during the morning newsbreak.
- The radio newsbreak lasted just two minutes before the music returned.
- An important or newsworthy event that happens suddenly.
- The election results were a major newsbreak that everyone was talking about.
- The company's announcement was a newsbreak for the tech industry.
- Scientists called the discovery a newsbreak in cancer research.