Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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n. recent news, especially indepth analysis of issues and events.
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Current affairs is a genre of broadcast journalism where the emphasis is on detailed analysis and discussion of news stories that have recently occurred or are ongoing at the time of broadcast.
This differs from regular news broadcasts that place emphasis on news reports presented for simple presentation as soon as possible, often with a minimum of analysis. It is also different from the news magazine show format, in that the events are discussed immediately. Commercial current affairs are cheap to produce averaging at $14,000 per broadcast hour, compared to drama television that was well over half a million dollars per hour.
The UK's Office programmes such as Panorama, Real Story, BBC Scotland Investigates, Spotlight, Week In Week Out, and Inside Out also fit the definition.
In Canada, CBC Radio produces a number of current affairs show both nationally such as The Current and As it Happens as well as regionally with morning current affairs shows such as Information Morning, a focus the radio network developed in the 1970s as a way to recapture audience from television.
Additionally, newspapers such as the Private Eye, the Economist, Monocle, the Spectator, the Week, the Oldie, the Investors Chronicle, Prospect, MoneyWeek, the New Statesman, TIME, Fortune, the BBC History Magazine and History Today are all sometimes referred to as current affairs magazines.
Current affairs can refer to:
- Current affairs (news format): a genre of broadcast journalism
- an approximate synonym for current events
- an approximate synonym for politics
- "Current Affairs", a song by Zion I from Heroes in the City of Dope
Usage examples of "current affairs".
The only way he could possibly benefit me would be with information as to current affairs in Amber.
His ambition was to become an educational broadcaster, and he was doing jack-of-all-trades work at the only TV station serving the Bight area - lecturing, reading news bulletins, and commenting on current affairs in Shinka and Holaini.
He put him in charge of all current affairs, with brief instructions, and bade good-by in a friendly and matter-of-fact way, as he would ordinarily have done before departing on a brief official journey.
I don't think I'd fully realized just how much my isolation in Annath had kept me out of touch with current affairs until father stopped by in the spring of 5349 and told me of the dissension among the Angaraks.
I need time alone to think and meditate upon my current affairs of state.
Before, they had consisted of giving a report on current affairs, being peppered with blunt, difficult questions, being given orders to carry out, and being summarily dismissed.
South Africa had no television network, but on her portable radio Victoria listened to a pungent edition of 'Current Affairs' on the state-controlled South African Broadcasting Corporation in which the campaign of defiance was described as the action of a radical minority, and Moses Gama was viiifled as a communist-inspired revolutionary criminal who was still at large, although a warrant had been issued for his arrest on a charge of high treason.
It was rare that my unusual perspective on current affairs afforded me much satisfaction, but this was certainly one occasion when it did.
And not so many years ago he and my mother appeared together on some sort of public committee about some current affairs thing, and they got on like a house afire.