Between 1950-55 Wright’s sculptures branched into two district directions: firstly, direct carvings in wood that had been his mainstay up until this point, and secondly, a series of much smaller cast figures, usually in lead. These figures were often positioned ‘in discussion’ on a single base. Subjects such as The Argument, The Lovers, and in this case News all depict groups interacting with each other – depicting the ‘electricity of human interaction’ as the artist described it. Wright’s wife Sue concurred, recording in her diaries in 1951:

“The chief idea being how we overlap and interweave with our fellows – in our relations we become part of a person for a time – part of the same whole anyway.”