news report vs story

news report and story both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
news report	Yes	No	No	No
story	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, news report and story are synonyms defined as:

Other synonyms of news report include account, report, write up.

news report (noun)	story (noun)
a short account of the news	a structure consisting of a room or set of rooms at a single position along a vertical scale
	a piece of fiction that narrates a chain of related events
	a short account of the news
	a trivial lie
	a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program
	a record or narrative description of past events