About
old news (n., idiomatic)
- A story no longer considered newsworthy; information already reported and displaced by fresher developments. In journalism, copy becomes old news the moment something newer arrives — regardless of how urgent it felt at the time.
Welcome to Old News.
There are stories worth remembering, and then there's the news. Old News surfaces the headlines of the recent and sort-of-recent past - the who, what, and where that mattered then — to ask: does any of it matter now?
We test the notion of the good old days. We also look for the things that never go out of fashion: the crooks and cons, the moral panics, and the disasters that seem too close.
Once upon a time, someone sat on a couch, on a bus, at a restaurant table, head buried between thin sheets of newsprint and rudely oblivious to their surroundings, absorbing every crisis. Old News wonders whether that person remembers any of it. It probably wasn't as bad as it seemed. And we've probably come further than we think.
Editor-in-Chief
Douglas Novielli graduated from McDaniel College, née Western Maryland College in 2002, where he disappointed and irritated Dr. Regis by finishing with a GPA just shy of honors in the English Department. He has written professionally for twenty years, though his audience has consisted almost entirely of lawyers. He lives in Austin, Texas, and is an avid Postcrosser.