Observed arrival · 2026-09-14
Story Object Model: a shared memory for newsroom tools
A visual guide to an open standard that lets newsroom systems exchange live story context through seven JSON message families on a publish/subscribe bus.
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The model divides newsroom state into a story, the assets gathered to tell it, and each telling through a particular destination. Its envelope and message families are intended to preserve sequence, provenance, review state, and downstream actions across existing systems rather than replace those systems. The page gives concrete examples including immutable story identifiers, rising sequence numbers, reference-only media, and a rule that omitted fields mean absent.
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