“All of this translates into interesting fodder for newsy features or even hard news.”

“Marketed in oral performances by ballad singers, and often stamped with visually striking woodcut images or flanked by newsy prose reports, these songs of crime developed a remarkably public poetics.”

“The significance of the decision was being debated online Wednesday because Tumblr was not alone among social media sites in producing its own newslike content, often with experienced journalists.”

“The new iPad app also includes the Discover tab, a newslike section of Twitter that attempts to highlight the most important news stories of the moment.”

“The significant gap is not between networks and cable, but between real news and the newslike substance that surrounds it, filler that is the equivalent of a cheese-food product vaguely resembling the real thing.”

“On the surface it promotes the idea that the New York Times will cover all newsworthy events.”

“Reporters, however, cover meetings only when there is the promise of something newsworthy.”

“For most people, the discovery of fossilised wood in a quarry would not be newsworthy.”