In journalism, late-breaking is a term used to describe news events that occur after the normal deadline for news reporting. Usually, the phrase refers to breaking news that is so urgent that it requires immediate attention and coverage. In a traditional newspaper, such news might be sports scores, financial reports, local politics, or severe weather.
In the era of 24-hour news networks, the term late-breaking can also refer to a breaking story that interrupts regular programming for a brief live report or special edition. This is most often done for extremely important news, such as the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy, and is less common for news that could be covered during an ongoing event such as a tornado or hurricane.
CHI 2025 will have an additional opportunity for investigators who miss the deadline for the main e-poster and/or oral platform submissions to present their work as a Late-Breaking Works (LBW). Accepted LBWs will be published in the conference archive, but will not receive the same level of dissemination as full papers. LBWs are semi-archival and authors can reuse their content for other peer-reviewed publications as long as they follow CHI’s author name and affiliation anonymization policy.
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