This is where you'll get key information fed to you about the world of Football Manager and also where you'll have the chance to respond to the comments and behaviour of the many personalities in the game.
Clicking Show Filters opens a window that enables you to sift through your news. To further ease your navigation of the news section you can use the panel in the bottom left of your screen to skip to your Next Unread message and the next message that requires a response.
Another useful tool here is the Mark As Unread feature which enables you to flag up a news item to act as a reminder so you can review the text at a later date. This is especially useful if you receive a scouting report on a player you wish to pursue it in the event of a current transfer bid falling through.

Competitions
As well as news of league victories and cup success, competition news will also keep you abreast of cup draws. You'll also get a break down of bookmakers' odds for success in each competition.

Messages
As well as direct messages from your own chairman and responses to any board requests that you make, you'll also receive news messages about job vacancies and appointments.

Transfers
A key function of the news section is charting the frequent comings and goings of players in the transfer market. This is where your scouts will report their findings and you'll discover the outcome of any transfer bids you make.
What's more, you'll also be alerted to any transfer activity involving players on your shortlist as well as movement involving top players.
In the event that you receive feedback on a transfer you can negotiate a deal from the response option and even delay a transfer once it has been agreed. Delaying a move is a good way of buying time if, say, you have a primary target who is yet to agree terms and you wish to line-up a secondary target in the event a deal falls through.
This is also a good way of managing your transfer budget (see Finances) by enabling you to delay the move until you can secure the cash you need to complete a deal. If you have insufficient cash you will be invited to delay the transfer for a week automatically, buying you time to transfer list players, offer them to other clubs or use other means to improve your Finances

Contracts
The contracts section is useful for ensuring you never allow a valuable player to leave the club at a cut price. You can ask your assistant to take care of less important contracts, but this news section will keep you informed as soon as one of your first team squad members enters the final year of their contract.
If the player sees out his contract with you, he will generally (depending on the nation involved) be entitled to leave the club without a transfer fee exchanging hands, under the Bosman ruling.

Media
If you choose to release a media comment it will appear in the news section here. This is the section in which you'll also have the chance to respond to media comments by other managers, selecting a response that will enable you to indulge in mind games with rivals.
You'll also be approached by members of the press to give comments on forthcoming matches and will even get input from ex-playing legends of your club who could prove to have a helpful word or two to say about the threat posed by your next opponents.

Records
Alerts in this category will tell you how you and your rivals are faring compared to Club, League and tournament records.

Discipline
A key area of club management that is not covered by bald facts and bare statistics is the behavior of your players on and off the pitch. If a player has an aggressive or unprofessional attitude it will manifest itself in playing bans following yellow and red cards received in matches. You'll hear about those bans and have a chance to appeal against them here.
What's more, those players who fail to show up for training or go AWOL could prove to be a hugely unsettling influence on your side. Such behavior will appear in the discipline news section and should be dealt with swiftly to avoid discontent in your camp.

Injuries
Self-explanatory section that will advise you of players who are incapacitated by injury. You will also be given the opportunity to deal with injuries in a variety of ways through this news section. Facing the sort of dilemmas real-life coaches do, you'll often need to make the tactical decision to allow a player to be pushed through next game with short-term treatment, risking the injury being worsened by competitive action.
This action needn't be as ill-advised as it seems - especially when it comes to getting a player through an end of season title-decider, when a player will have some time to recover in the aftermath.
If you have a shortage of spare time or a large squad however, you'd be well advised to let your physio take care of treatment and rehabilitation.