newsmakingEtymologyFrom news + making.adjMaking news; important or newsworthy“Bonds saved a newsmaking announcement for Pittsburgh.”nounThe act or process of making news, of doing or saying something that is newsworthy“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.””