hard news

A respected journalist with the demeanor of an undertaker, McGee insisted to management that he ask the first three questions of any hard news subject who appeared on “Today” before Walters could have a chance.

I was a hard news person, a 'Dateline' person.

“A lot of young people are not looking for hard news,” says Mr Cox.

The successful rise of “Call Her Daddy” is part of that, much to the ire of hard news journalists and reporters.

Early in my career, in the late 1990s, I covered “hard news,” including cops and courts in Philadelphia.