Written news articles often have a secret language to them which hints at the underlying reporting progress - language like "according to **two people familiar with** the board’s deliberations".
I don't think these are at all obvious to people who haven't worked in news, so I wrote an article about them:
Deciphering clues in a news article to understand how it was reported
https://simonwillison.net/2023/Nov/22/deciphering-clues/
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