newspaper clipping vs selection

newspaper clipping and selection both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
newspaper clipping	Yes	No	No	No
selection	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, selection is a hypernym of newspaper clipping; that is, selection is a word with a broader meaning than newspaper clipping:

Other hypernyms of newspaper clipping include excerpt, excerption, extract.

newspaper clipping (noun)	selection (noun)
an excerpt cut from a newspaper or magazine	the act of choosing or selecting
	the person or thing chosen or selected
	a passage selected from a larger work
	an assortment of things from which a choice can be made
	a natural process resulting in the evolution of organisms best adapted to the environment