News News is the reporting of " new events , " and has been informed to the public in a number of different mediums as technology progresses , such as newspaper s and television programs . Early publication . On the planet Earth , one of the earliest forms of getting news to the general public was newspapers . News broadcasts . As soon as the television was invented , one of the first broadcast programs was the news . In 1957 , news footage of several atomic weapon s tests in White Sands , New Mexico was broadcast on Earth . Mestral watched the footage in the Pine Tree bar , in Carbon Creek , Pennsylvania . ( ) When Gary Seven arrived on Earth in 1968 , he had the Beta 5 computer search news broadcasts to find Agent 347 and Agent 201 . It soon found that they had been killed in an automobile accident , several days prior . ( ) When the was pulled back to 1996 by a temporal rift created by Captain Braxton , Ensign Kim assigned Kes and Neelix to watch the various news channels for anything that could help them , including information that might help locate Braxton . At one point , " Voyager " had to enter a very low orbit to transport Captain Janeway and Commander Chakotay aboard . Unfortunately , the starship was caught on tape by a man with a video camera in his backyard having a barbeque , and the clip aired on the national news , which called the craft an " unidentified flying object . " ( ) In 2000 , Marci Collins – a reporter for " 3 Action News " ( a local station in Portage Creek , Indiana ) – interviewed Gerald Moss and Henry Janeway , during a battle over whether Janeway would sell his store in order to build the Millennium Gate by their deadline – specifically , midnight of December 31st , 2000 . ( ) In 2004 , a man in Detroit , Michigan named was assisting a then - unknown employer kidnap people for money ( believing them to be terrorist s . ) He informed his employer ( who was actually Damron , a Xindi - Reptilian who had traveled back in time ) that , after having abducted several people , he thought he heard the mysterious disappearances mentioned on the news . ( ) In 2024 , Channel 90 reported about the Bell Riots that occurred at Sanctuary District A . ( ) On the planet 892 - IV , in a culture that resembled a 20th century version of a Roman Empire that never fell , Empire TV televised news programs . These featured events of the day , such as barbarian s and Son worshipers being arrested , as well as coverage of gladiatorial games . According to Communications Officer Uhura , these broadcasts also contained news commentary of questionable effectiveness . ( ) During the Gorkon - assassination crisis in 2293 , Valeris reported to Captain s Spock and Scott that Azetbur had been named Chancellor of the Klingon High Council , citing that " it was on the news . " ( ) Several prominent Federation news stations sent reporters to report on the launch of the , some of which included the Federation News Network and the Federation News Service . ( ) " In 2404 of an alternate timeline , a news program showed a video clip of the USS " Voyager " s flyby over the Golden Gate Bridge after returning to Earth , in honor of its ten - year anniversary . A commentator on that news program stated : " " Also on that day , the same news program reported that corruption charges had been brought against the Ferengi Gaming Commission . " ( ) Appendices . Apocrypha . In the novelization of , the news is indirectly mentioned by Captain Kirk , while talking to a Vendorian disguised as the famed but long - thought - dead philanthropist Carter Winston . As Kirk is not yet aware of the Vendorian ' s true identity when the reference is made , he says that , once Starfleet makes the details of Winston ' s rescue known , " the news people will go crazy . " Kirk goes on to reckon that Winston is likely to be " faxed to death , " immediately upon returning to a Federation planet .