Simon Willison on Nostr: Written news articles often have a secret language to them which hints at the ...

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/