newsworthiness
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- noun
- /ˈnuːzwɜrðɪnəs/
- Literature
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relevancia
- Before deciding what to cover, journalists often debate the newsworthiness of various topics.
Examples
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A press release must satisfy the criteria of newsworthiness.
Blog text (9) -
Each sentinel reader assigns ratings to new articles for both relevance and newsworthiness on a scale from 1 to 7.
Academic text (2007) -
A well-known criterion of newsworthiness is whether a story appears in the New York Times.
Academic text (2000) -
The decline in attention to the Court reflects the media's emphasis on newsworthiness.
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The newsworthiness of the story, however, stems from more than its mere exoticness; it arises from the apparent ordinariness of what would be highly unusual elsewhere and at other times.
Academic text (1997) -
As Earl et al. (2004) note, the decision by a news agency to report an event at all differs systematically according to factors that affect the intrinsic newsworthiness of the event, such as the type of protest event or the issue involved.
Academic text (2016) -
What is interesting, though, is the apparent newsworthiness of this story: Shas garnered about 15 percent of the national vote, only 1-2 percentage points fewer than Likud did (see Figure 2).
Academic text (2001) -
By tying the newsworthiness of information to the fact that local people are discussing it, scribes again place value on traditional modes of Anabaptist communication and social assembly and reflect an understanding of news first and foremost as communal interests.
Academic text (2016) -
The newsworthiness of the event was clear, as it attracted reporters from multiple media outlets.
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Stories with high newsworthiness can shape public opinion and influence important decisions.
Synonyms
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Something interesting or important enough to be reported by journalists
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How much something is about things people care about now
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Being well known
How Newsworthy
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- Literature
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Surface Forms
Morphology
newsworthiness = newsworthy (transparent) = news + worthy + ness
The noun is a straightforward nominalization of the adjective 'newsworthy' using the productive suffix '-ness'.
Etymology
Newsworthiness breaks into news + worth + -ness, where worth means 'value' and -ness makes a word about a 'quality'. So, newsworthiness is the quality of being 'worth reporting' or 'worth the news', which explains why editors decide which stories to publish.