Title: What Makes a Story Newsworthy?
Headings: What Makes a Story Newsworthy
What Makes a Story Newsworthy
Factors Journalists Use to Gauge How Big a Story Is
Impact or Consequences
Conflict
Loss of Life/Property Destruction
Proximity
Prominence
Timeliness
Novelty
Human Interest

Content: Timeliness
In the news business, journalists tend to focus on what’s happening today. So events happening now are often more newsworthy than those that happened, say, a week ago. This is where the term "old news" comes from, meaning worthless. Another factor that relates to timeliness is currency. This involves stories that might not have just happened but instead, have an ongoing interest to your audience. For example, the rise and fall in gas prices have been happening for years, but it’s still relevant to your readers, so it has currency. Novelty
Another old saying in the news business goes, “When a dog bites a man, no one cares. When the man bites back—now that’s a news story .” The idea is that any deviation from the normal course of events is novel and thus newsworthy. Human Interest
Human interest stories tend to be feature stories and often break some of the rules mentioned above.