An aspect or angle of a story that makes it newsworthy.
Talese further expanded traditional journalistic practice by delaying a story's news peg until as late in a story as he could manage
Example sentencesExamples
His news peg is the housing market, which he says is more likely to crash than not.
The story, apparently plucked from the Drudge Report and then localized, didn't have a concrete news peg.
But since the sidewalk's not melting, if I want any sort of news peg for this column, I'll have to venture into the murky-as-tar area of All This Talk about the ‘Marriage Penalty.’
Although death is the obvious news peg, an obituary, like any story, needs a central point.
Still, it needed a news peg, the original one having long since evaporated.
Definition of news peg in US English:
news peg
noun
An aspect or angle of a story that makes it newsworthy.
Talese further expanded traditional journalistic practice by delaying a story's news peg until as late in a story as he could manage
Example sentencesExamples
Although death is the obvious news peg, an obituary, like any story, needs a central point.
Still, it needed a news peg, the original one having long since evaporated.
The story, apparently plucked from the Drudge Report and then localized, didn't have a concrete news peg.
But since the sidewalk's not melting, if I want any sort of news peg for this column, I'll have to venture into the murky-as-tar area of All This Talk about the ‘Marriage Penalty.’
His news peg is the housing market, which he says is more likely to crash than not.