Over the last 150 years western culture has moved from a slow-media environment through the rise of the ‘objective’ news paradigm to news as entertainment. These transitions have affected all of culture in obvious and subtle ways. The nature of what is considered news has changed as has the value of information and action. In the wake of sweeping cultural and technological change that altered our information space, news space, and ultimately our cultural interaction, our understanding of the nature of the gospel as news has changed with it. In this paper I recover a pre-modern understanding of the gospel as news while applying it to the modern context. This paper argues that by recovering ancient forms of news we can recover the gospel as transofrmative and active. I will particularly examine the church fathers’ writings on the gospel as news to understand the context in which the gospel was originally preached.