When Ms. Couric is not making unavailing assays at extracting newsworthy information, she relaxes into her more homey early-morning mode, with the usual smiles and nods.

"Scientific research faces a crisis because its public figures are overselling the issues to gain attention in a hotly contested market for newsworthy information."

But today, armed with a PC and a high-speed Internet connection, absolutely anyone can share newsworthy information and opinions with a worldwide audience.

(1) Lead consists of the most timely and newsworthy information.

"Our readers are taking short breaks to the same cities over and over again, and want the most newsworthy and up-to-date information."

The journal contains editorials, articles, reports, reviews, profiles dealing with current practices, new equipment and techniques, procedures, lessons learned and newsworthy information.

Dispatchers are employed 24/7 to monitor the radio traffic and pick out newsworthy information.

The Pentagon is clearly eager to be the first to report the most newsworthy information.

A federal appeals court held that as the passive receiver of newsworthy information, journalists could not be punished under the wiretap law, despite the privacy interests at stake.

An information subsidy is the provision of ready-to-use newsworthy information to the news media by various sources interested in gaining access to media time and space.