newsworthy
adjective
news·wor·thy
ˈnüz-ˌwər-t͟hē 
ˈnyüz-
: interesting enough to the general public to warrant reporting
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In a way, then, a documentary like Angus Wall’s Being Eddie, a generally amiable and adulatory 90 minutes streaming on Netflix, fails; with its softly hagiographic approach, the director never pushes Eddie Murphy to any place that feels untapped or confrontational, and therefore newsworthy.
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Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 30 Dec. 2025
Most of them appear to be photos of hard drives, file folders and other pieces of evidence that aren't especially newsworthy.
—CBS News, 19 Dec. 2025
And over the course of the last several years, Tarbell fellows have produced interesting work and legitimately newsworthy scoops, some of which have been positive about AI, or critical of both OpenAI and Anthropic.
—Max Tani, semafor.com, 8 Dec. 2025
That doesn't mean not pursuing stories about someone who has done something wrong or newsworthy enough to chase.
—Bill Goodykoontz, AZCentral.com, 5 Dec. 2025
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Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 30 Dec. 2025
Most of them appear to be photos of hard drives, file folders and other pieces of evidence that aren't especially newsworthy.
—CBS News, 19 Dec. 2025
And over the course of the last several years, Tarbell fellows have produced interesting work and legitimately newsworthy scoops, some of which have been positive about AI, or critical of both OpenAI and Anthropic.
—Max Tani, semafor.com, 8 Dec. 2025
That doesn't mean not pursuing stories about someone who has done something wrong or newsworthy enough to chase.
—Bill Goodykoontz, AZCentral.com, 5 Dec. 2025
See All Example Sentences for newsworthy
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“Newsworthy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/newsworthy. Accessed 6 Jan. 2026.
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newsworthy
adjective
news·wor·thy
-ˌwər-t͟hē
: sufficiently interesting to the average person to deserve reporting
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