Did that Event Warrant Newspaper Coverage?

When you discover a “new” event in your ancestor’s life, do you consider that it might have generated newspaper coverage? Deaths and marriages are pretty obvious items for possible newspaper menti
on, but there are other events that may have generated newspaper coverage as well.

An ancestral acquaintance was convicted of manslaughter in 1858 and pardoned a few years later. I thought to look for a newspaper account of the trail, but should have looked for mention of the pardon as well.