newsworthy

adjectiveB2+Rare in speech; mostly a word you read · #11,860 of 15,258neutral

Newsworthy means interesting or important enough to report. A newsworthy story, hardly newsworthy, newsworthy in itself.

What counts is decided by editors rather than by any rule, and the working test is unusualness rather than importance, which is why a rare disease outranks a common one. The word is also used to defend a story afterwards.

Definitions of newsworthy

1adjectivenewsworthyInteresting or important enough to report.B2+
“A dog biting a man isn't newsworthy, but a man biting a dog is.”

newsworthy is a quality.

Where it comes from

Middle English
newes
English
news
English, today
newsworthy

Built from

newys · Middle English — new things

From news + -worthy. news comes from Middle English newes, newys (“new things”), equivalent to new + s. Compare stq Näis (“news”), East Frisian näjs (“news”), West Frisian nijs (“news”), Dutch nieuws (“news”), German Low German Neeis (“new things; news”), though, unlike the English word, those s originated as s, not as s. Sometimes erroneously claimed to be an acronym of "North, East, West, South" or "Noteworthy Events, Weather, Sports".

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

newsworthy in the wild

Organizations sometimes seek publicity by staging newsworthy events that attract media coverage.
Publicity stunt
In August 2015 she became a Special Correspondent for NPR, responsible for detailed profiles of newsworthy figures, and long-form stories and series on topical issues.
Melissa Block
The publication focuses on the newsworthy events in St.
St. Thomas Times-Journal
FNS produces on-demand verbatim transcripts of newsworthy events in DC (including speeches, congressional hearings, and interviews) for its clients.
Federal News Service
White married actor and film director Henry Edwards in 1922, and in the 1920s the two were regarded as one of Britain's most newsworthy celebrity couples.
Chrissie White

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