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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
newsworthy
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Very little that was newsworthy was said at the conference.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Anderson had done it before and so, according to my colleagues it wasn't newsworthy.
▪ But to Profumo's bad luck, other newsworthy circumstances were available to salt the story.
▪ It has to be noted that gaol conditions are no longer newsworthy and the clamour for reform has largely faded.
▪ It is the most newsworthy item since the Dodgers failed to sell out their playoff games.
▪ It would really be newsworthy if I had seen the left side move while the left brain was being stimulated.
▪ Near misses are certainly much less newsworthy than injuries or deaths.
▪ Reporters can not be everywhere and so press releases can help to ensure that newsworthy events receive the publicity they deserve.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
newsworthy

newsworthy \newsworthy\ adj. Sufficiently interesting to be reported in a newspaper; as, a dog biting a man is not a newsworthy item.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
newsworthy

1932, from news + worthy.

Wiktionary
newsworthy

a. Interesting enough to be reported as a news

WordNet
newsworthy

adj. sufficiently interesting to be reported in a newspaper

Usage examples of "newsworthy".

Laslo spent his days working with different women and men, all wealthy, some as newsworthy as Marquise, but none quite as flamboyant.

I thought, if I were caught in a newsworthy tragedy: he would be about as compassionate as a tornado.

For example, the robbery of a British couple is automatically more newsworthy than the robbery of, say, golfers from Atlanta.

World Room, listening to the ABC news president firsthand, not one found anything newsworthy in what he said.

This turned out to be a smashingly newsworthy comment, as it always is.

In its infancy, the Jackknife had made a name for itself by taking two newsworthy sacrifices: a young man camped out near Pinson Lake and his dog.

Nancy, hoping she would find some vulnerability, and thus continue what he saw as a newsworthy vendetta.

All in all, I had clippings on eleven incidents in the battle, not one of them found sufficiently newsworthy to be mentioned by all four of the morning papers.

He supposed he should warn Faith, though certainly she knew how ridiculously newsworthy his life was.

New York, there are waitresses and such who get paid by gossip columnists to report on newsworthy people having a tete-a-tete in a dark lounge.

This piracy of newsworthy assignments is the paper's way of reminding me that I'm still at the top of the shit list, that I will be there until pigs can fly, and that my byline will never again sully the front page.

And if my name appears in the paper this week under your byline, it'd better be because I've croaked in some newsworthy way.

They let him be the man in the white coat, and he gave them stitches of newsworthy words to suture up fistulas of dead air, the recipient not only of two Nobel awards but of two crashes .

One must remember that during this period, jailbreaks were, in the words of one commentator, "quite as common as illegitimate births," and nothing so ordinary was really newsworthy.

People always paused and watched these vans drive past, probably wondering if it was going to stop nearby, if something newsworthy was happening, if they themselves might even get to appear in the background of a news report.