"news bits" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It typically refers to small, up-to-date snippets of news. For example: "I like to check the news bits on my phone before I leave for work in the morning."
While I would argue that services like the Daily – aimed at red-suspendered traders interested in sports news and news bits on their way to work from the wilds of New Jersey – are still in their infancy, the general consensus is that the paywall, like it or not, will have to exist for the magazine industry to survive.
Instead of a daily roundup of news, Bits subscribers will now get just our weekly chat.
Computerized news services will learn users' viewing habits and offer them news bits tailored to their tastes.
They said they feared that he would not work well with his fellow executives and that he would not be willing to produce the sort of easily digestible news bits that Internet audiences seem to desire.
Instead, they get an abbreviated mix of news bits, political snippets, celebrity gossip and short feature profiles tagged with an "estimated reading time" (usually in the range of 6 to 14 minutes).
The videos became more prominent in the late 1980's, as more and more television stations cut news-gathering budgets and were glad to have packaged news bits to call their own, even if they were prepared by corporations seeking to sell products.
You may have seen the news bit.
Maybe no one but the Tea Party ground troops heard the news bit, but it was still newsbitworthy.
He gets the news bit done, but he's not above adding a mischievous sense of event to it.
The news industry and a number of politicians grossly over-reacted to another out of context news-bit.
In early July, the news industry and a number of politicians and government officials grossly over-reacted to an out of context news-bit in the case of Shirley Sherrod.
