news vs statement

news

noun
  • New information of interest. 

  • Posts published on newsgroups 

  • Information about current events disseminated via media. 

statement

noun
  • A presentation of opinion or position. 

  • A declaration or remark. 

  • An instruction in a computer program, especially one that returns no value, as opposed to a function call. 

  • A document that summarizes financial activity. 

verb
  • To provide an official document of a proposition, especially in the UK a Statement of Special Educational Needs. 

How often have the words news and statement occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )