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News has a route before it reaches your screen

Follow the path from an initial report to a headline, bulletin or alert, and see how each format shapes what readers encounter.

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News is made in stages, not delivered whole.

Understanding those stages helps explain why a story can look different across formats, without assuming that every change is a distortion.

  1. How Newsroom Assignments Become Publishable Stories
  2. Newsletter or Live Bulletin: Two Ways to Follow a Developing Story
  3. Before Push Alerts: How Newsrooms Reached Readers by Edition, Wire, and Broadcast

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