news program vs news

news program and news both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
news program	Yes	No	No	No
news	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, news program and news are synonyms defined as:

news program and news: a program devoted to current events, often using interviews and commentary

Other synonyms of news program include news show.

news program (noun)	news (noun)
a program devoted to current events, often using interviews and commentary	the quality of being sufficiently interesting to be reported in news bulletins
	information about recent and important events
	information reported in a newspaper or news magazine
	a program devoted to current events, often using interviews and commentary
	informal information of any kind that is not previously known to someone