Patent ID: 8719279

Claim:
A computer system for determining a newsworthiness score for a news story, the computer system comprising: one or more processors, one or more computer-readable memories and one or more computer-readable, tangible storage devices; program instructions, stored on at least one of the one or more storage devices for execution by at least one of the one or more processors via at least one of the one or more memories, to obtain data describing a news story from a client; program instructions, stored on at least one of the one or more storage devices for execution by at least one of the one or more processors via at least one of the one or more memories, to compare the data describing a news story to a set of pre-determined factors to locate at least one of the set of pre-determined factors in the data describing a news story; and program instructions, stored on at least one of the one or more storage devices for execution by at least one of the one or more processors via at least one of the one or more memories, responsive to locating the at least one of the set of pre-determined factors in the data describing a news story, to add at least one of a set of pre-calculated values to a running total, wherein each one of the set of pre-determined factors is assigned a respective one of the set of pre-calculated values and the at least one of the set of pre-calculated values added to the running total is a pre-calculated value associated with the at least one of the pre-determined factors located in the data, and wherein the running total comprises a newsworthiness score.