newsworthyadj.

1596 F. Davison Let. 6 Nov. in Transcripts & Extracts Papers A. Bacon (1751) (BL MS Add. 4122) XIV. p. xxvi Our last advices mention the winning of Agria by the Turk... If you think any of these News worthy, I pray you communicate it with Mr. Anth. Bacon, to whom I account myself exceedingly beholden.

1890 Forest & Stream 28 Aug. 109/3 Oh, it was such a nice little dinner! The paper spilled over about a column's worth on it... Part of this simple, elegant, newsworthy little repast consisted of baked prairie chicken!

1932 Time 15 Feb. 4/2 Time is grateful for support and criticism of its policy, and repeats its promise to cause the minimum of offense in respect to newsworthy oaths.

1940 Harper's Mag. Nov. 588a The Nazi offensive..is, judging from our newspapers, apparently the only newsworthy topic.

1960 ‘M. Cronin’ Begin with Gun vii. 82 A celebrated French modiste who had become eminently newsworthy..had consented to be interviewed.

2017 T. Peake North Facing ii. 15 At the University of Mississippi recently, a black student by the name of James Meredith registered to study. Why is this news-worthy?

1936 L. C. Douglas White Banners v. 88 The manner of the taciturn chemist's departure had doubled the insurance his widow would have received in the event of his having died less newsworthily.

1974 Encounter 43 57/2 Commuters [were] protesting, being snowed in, or otherwise made newsworthily unhappy.

2018 Financial Times (Nexis) 15 Dec. 10 Incidents of racism in football crowds are today so newsworthily rare that they are dissected on the Match of the Day highlights programme along with the goals.

1935 Washington Post 7 Apr. b2 The nine gentlemen in black who shape the country's law toiled away last week, with three things about their deliberations outstanding in newsworthiness.

1967 G. Playfair Prodigy vii. 167 His newsworthiness had dwindled.

1990 L.A. Style Mar. 38/2 One happy sidebar to the awful newsworthiness of South Africa has been to make its music more marketable.

2012 A. Mayr & D. Machin Lang. of Crime & Deviance Introd. 16 Editors and journalists produce and select news according to a range of professional criteria that determine a story's newsworthiness.