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News peg

Meaning in journalism & media, with examples

nounAdvanced term

In journalism & media, news peg means: A timely event or development that gives a publication a reason to run a story now.

In Turkish: haberin güncellik dayanağı

How it is used

Use to explain timing; the news peg supplies urgency while the angle supplies the focus.

Example sentences

  1. The new rent figures gave our housing feature a strong news peg.

    Newly released data makes a previously planned topic timely.

  2. Her pitch had interesting characters but lacked a news peg for this week's edition.

    An editor may need a reason to publish an otherwise worthwhile story now.

Common collocations

  • find a news peg
  • strong news peg
  • timely news peg
  • angleThe particular point of view or focus a journalist chooses for a story, which decides which facts and voices come first.
  • newsworthyInteresting or important enough to be reported as news, for example because it is new, unusual, local, surprising or affects many people.

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