newsworthiness

newsworthiness — noun

1. the degree to which an event, claim, or issue seems important or unusual enough

1.名詞C2
釋義

the degree to which an event, claim, or issue seems important or unusual enough to deserve coverage in the news.

例句

Editors debated the newsworthiness of the leaked school budget before sunrise.

the newsworthiness of + noun phrase

Tunde questioned the newsworthiness of a minor traffic jam near city hall.

question the newsworthiness of + noun phrase

同義詞
  • public interest

    focuses on what matters to society, not only a newsroom's editorial judgment

  • media value

    journalism term for how useful or attractive something is as a story

  • significance

    broader — importance in general, not specifically reportability

反義詞
  • triviality

    suggests the subject is too small or unimportant to cover

  • irrelevance

    emphasizes that there is no clear public reason to report it

文法句型

the newsworthiness of + noun phrase

question the newsworthiness of + noun phrase

用法筆記

Usually uncountable and most common in journalism or media-law discussions. It often appears in patterns like 'the newsworthiness of the story' when speakers judge whether something deserves public coverage rather than private interest.

常見錯誤

❌This recipe has a lot of newsworthiness for my family.
✅This recipe is very important to my family.
💡Newsworthiness is about value as a public news story, not private importance.
❌The rumor had many newsworthinesses.
✅The rumor had little newsworthiness.
💡Newsworthiness is normally an uncountable noun.