Second piece of news, in a way? (4)
I believe the answer is:
east
'a way?' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both locations as well as being singular nouns.
Maybe there's a link between them I don't understand?
'second piece of news in' is the wordplay.
'second' becomes 's' (common abbreviation).
'piece of news' becomes 'eat' (I can't explain this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'in' is an insertion indicator.
's' inserted inside 'eat' is 'EAST'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for east that I've seen before include "On most maps it's right!" , "bridge-player" , "Direction taken when going from the US towards Ireland" , "Upset seat in one direction" , "Asia" .)