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Government proclamations, concerning royal ceremonies, laws, taxes, public health, have been dubbed news since ancient times. Humans exhibit a nearly universal desire to learn and share news, which they satisfy by talking to each other and sharing information.Technological and social developments, often driven by government communication and espionage networks, have increased the speed with which news can spread, as well as influenced its content.

The genre of news as we know it today is closely associated with the newspaper.Another corollary of the newness of news is that, as new technology enables new media to disseminate news more quickly, 'slower' forms of communication may move away from 'news' towards 'analysis'.

According to some theories, "news" is whatever the news industry sells Journalism, broadly understood along the same lines, is the act or occupation of collecting and providing news.

From a commercial perspective, news is simply one input, along with paper (or an electronic server) necessary to prepare a final product for distribution.

Quantitatively, the internet has massively expanded the sheer volume of news items available to one person. The speed of news flow to individuals has also reached a new plateau.

This insurmountable flow of news can daunt people and cause information overload. We can call this period the "technetronic era", in which "global reality increasingly absorbs the individual, involves him, and even occasionally overwhelms him."

In cases of government crackdowns or revolutions, the Internet has often become a major communication channel for news propagation; while it's a (relatively) simple act to shut down a newspaper, radio or television station, mobile devices such as smartphones and netbooks are much harder to detect and confiscate.

The propagation of internet-capable mobile devices has also given rise to the CITIZEN JOURNALIST, who provide an additional perspective on unfolding events.

A professor at the University Graduate School of Journalism, has said that " everything we thought we once knew about journalism needs to be rethought in the DIGITAL AGE."

Because each individual has a particular point of view, it is recognized that there can be no absolute objectivity in news reporting.

Journalists can collectively shift their opinion over what is a controversy up for debate and what is an established fact. Some commentators on news values have argued that journalists' training in news values itself represents a systemic bias of the news.

This thesis uses input-output modeling to measure the economic impact of non-profit sectors.

The model is calibrated using data that describes the inter-industry relationships within each local economy, and then simulated using input-output analysis with social accounting matrix extensions.

Output multipliers are generated for the Arts, Education, Environment, Health, Human Services, and Other non-profit sectors using software, which calculates the ripple effects throughout each local economy.

There are still considerably more businesses than nonprofits, of course, about four times as many.

But over that period, nonprofits also outpaced businesses in their percentage growth in hiring, wages and contribution to the gross domestic product, according to the Urban Institute.

The number of nonprofits in the United States grew 25 percent while the number of for-profit businesses rose by half of 1 percent, according to the most recent figures compiled by the Urban Institute.

All told, roughly 1.6 million nonprofits employed 10 percent of the domestic work force in 2010 and accounted for 5 percent of G.D.P. Nonprofits are all exempt from corporate taxes according to the Urban Institute.

In addition to the economic activity encouraged by nonprofits and the countless dollars that nonprofits save governments through their efficient service delivery, nonprofits are also one of the greatest sources of employment across the country.

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the nonprofit sector employs 11.4 million people - that's 10.2 percent of the American workforce!

Check out the map below to find out what percent of the workforce in your state is employed by a nonprofit. But over that period, nonprofits also outpaced businesses in their percentage growth in hiring, wages and contribution to the gross domestic product, according to the Urban Institute to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

All told, roughly 1.6 million nonprofits employed 10 percent of the domestic work force in 2010 and accounted for 5 percent of G.D.P. Nonprofits are all exempt from corporate taxes. But aside from that, they are an extremely varied group. Most are charities, for which donations are tax-deductible.

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the nonprofit sector employs 11.4 million people - that's 10.2 percent of the American workforce! What percent of the workforce in your state is employed by a nonprofit. But over that period, nonprofits also outpaced businesses in their percentage growth in hiring, wages and contribution to the gross domestic product, according to the Urban Institute.

When it comes to the top 10 national economies around the globe, the order may shift a bit, but the key players usually remain the same, and so does the name at the head of the list. The United States has been the world’s biggest economy since 1871. But that top ranking is now under threat from China.