1. of sufficient interest to the public or a special audience to warrant press attention or coverage.
Related forms
newsworthiness, noun
unnewsworthy, adjective
Examples from the web for newsworthy
- Secondly, as current science news this story about laughter releasing endorphins hardly seems newsworthy.
- There's nothing newsworthy in printing a statistic and the obsequiously aped concern of a politician.
- Regardless, as long as this is an unidentified animal it is newsworthy and deserving of further investigation.
- His press conferences are charming and workmanlike but rarely newsworthy.
- newsworthy events, however, have a tendency to occur at any hour.
- But it seems to me it's newsworthy that a student at a major university could even think these things.
- When scientists have newsworthy findings that are published in a journal, there may be a press conference about them.
- It didn't make the news because it wasn't all that newsworthy.
- Apparently he has enough respect from others to raise a few million dollars, launch a new blog, and have it be a newsworthy event.
- It doesn't even matter if they're doing anything newsworthy.
British Dictionary definitions for newsworthy
adjective 1. sufficiently interesting to be reported in a news bulletin
Word Origin and History for newsworthy