Editor’s Column: What makes news, news?

I sometimes forget normal people don’t always understand how this crazy process works.
When someone asks us for news coverage, my first question is usually, “is this newsworthy?” Newsworthy means true, interesting and relevant. Generally (particularly at this time of year when everyone is hibernating, on vacation or trying to recover from holiday overload), just about anything qualifies as newsworthy. If someone asks for news coverage and we can make that happen, we do, to…