newsmaking

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

news +‎ making

Adjective[edit]

newsmaking (comparative more newsmaking, superlative most newsmaking)

  1. Making news; important or newsworthy
    • 2007 August 14, The Associated Press, “Bonds Receives an Ovation and Talks About His Future”, in New York Times[1]:
      Bonds saved a newsmaking announcement for Pittsburgh.

Noun[edit]

newsmaking (uncountable)

  1. The act or process of making news, of doing or saying something that is newsworthy
    • 2007 February 7, David M. Halbfinger, “Hollywood Takes Its Concerns About Piracy and Taxes to Washington”, in New York Times[2]:
      In a rare moment of newsmaking, Barry M. Meyer, the chairman of Warner Brothers, issued a sharp rebuke to the president of the Consumer Electronics Association, Gary Shapiro, who warned in January that antipiracy efforts could “smother” technological progress and said that “private conduct may be unauthorized, but that does not mean it is piracy.”

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