I've been thinking about how when any kind of news breaks you end up with an article from basically every big news outlet about it and from plenty of small outlets that are trying to become big ones. It feels like everyone is trying to get in on the attention that comes with news but also just wants to say every new story in their own words and that there's a ton of duplication of work instead of building on things we already know. my thought is this: what if there was a way for news orgs and journalists to publish their articles on an app in ATproto, and then other orgs/independent journalists could "certify" certain parts of the article as a good way to frame the issue or they can "contest" parts of the article and add their own context. This allows orgs to intuitively collaborate on stories, easily identifying pieces of the story that are more controversial, and allowing each news outlet/journalist to either formally contribute their own thoughts to the story that broke the news or create their own article about the story like normal.

I also want to allow journalists to add their stories to topics, or create new topics if they feel the story is unique enough. This would enable journalists to connect stories to it that are in the same vein from the past. If this was done you'd eventually be able to view a string of events as it relates to the history of the topic, like a timeline for every story, and find related articles easily.

For example, there might be a story from Scientific American that breaks the news that there's a new strain of covid. The article gets added to the topics "Covid-19" and "". Some journalists certify certain parts of the story but other parts are contested, easily allowing users to see which parts are generally agreed upon and which parts are controversial. Then another journalist from The New York Times breaks the news that a study confirms that the new strain is 28% more transmissible than the previously most transmissible strain, but there are problems with the study. Other orgs/journalists can contest the second article and add context to it, but don't have to explain the whole story of the first article because the stories are linked by the topic, and you could natively link to older articles on the platform inline. That second story would be connected to the first story and anyone can look backwards in the timeline to see what the history is.

Thoughts on this idea?