A news screen was an audio/visual device used by Humans in the 22nd century for the reception of current event broadcasts. In 2154, when Enterprise NX-01 chief engineer Charles Tucker refused to make modifications to the verteron array on Mars so that John Frederick Paxton could use it as a weapon against Earth, Paxton ordered one of his men to imprison Tucker, and to make sure he had a news screen so that he could "see the bodies when they start to pull them from the rubble." (ENT: "Terra Prime")