stop press

Alternative forms

 * when used as a noun in attribution

Etymology
From, US newspaper-printing jargon.

Noun

 * 1)  The event or news article important enough to delay or interrupt the print, or require a reprint, of a publication, particularly of a newspaper edition.
 * 2) * 1989, Textual Introduction to The Anatomy of Melancholy, Robert Burton
 * Three of the errata corrections had already been made as stop-press corrections [...]
 * 1) * 2002, Russell Miller, Behind the Lines
 * Faked Stop Press! announcements in newspapers. A valuable trick because it can always be claimed that the announcement was ‘hushed up’. It is also easy to fake the printing of the Stop Press.
 * 1) * 2005, Mary Norway, The Sinn Fein Rebellion As I Saw It,
 * Another lady thought she would drive a lesson home, so she said: “But you said it was a ‘Stop press,’ and you knew it was not.”
 * “It is, miss, but sure they hadn’t time to print the ‘stop press’ on it!!”
 * (“Stop press” is the latest news, usually printed on the back of the paper.)