Friday 15 November, 2024

This was the news story of 2014

Urgent and horrifying.

AS 2014 DRAWS to a close, media organisations are rounding up their news stories of the year; their highs and lows, their biggest headlines.

Nothing, NOTHING, beats this one though, as nominated by Tim Rich:

This currently my news story of 2014 pic.twitter.com/kEkUFoFGzG
— Tim Rich (@timiswriting) December 16, 2014

Tim Rich / Twitter

It’s a strong contender. A very strong contender.

Originally via Darren Cornish

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This was the news story of 2014

Journalism has officially reached its peak with this headline

The internet responded excellently to this Daily Mail headline about sandwiches

19 urgent and horrifying stories from local newspapers