news-researchlisted

# News Research ## Overview Collects evidence from news/press coverage. The defining challenge here is fan-out: ten outlets rewriting the same press release or wire story is not ten independent sources — it's one, relayed nine times (constitution rule 5). This skill's core job is running origin tracing aggressively, not just collecting the first ten search hits. **Layer rule:** produces evidence, not results. Synthesis and confidence status are the orchestrator's job. ## When to use Direct use: "what did press cover about X launch", "find news on Y". As a component: orchestrator dispatches this for event/announcement-type sub-questions. Don't use for: the announcement itself when it's directly reachable (→ official-source-research, and this skill should trace there anyway per step 2 below), opinion/analysis pieces (→ blog-research), peer-reviewed coverage of research (→ academic-research). ## Workflow 1. **Search broadly first** — a single event often has many outlets covering it; collect several candidate URLs before picking which to fetch in full, so the fan-out is visible before origin tracing starts. 2. **Run origin tracing aggressively, on every hit, before recording.** Check for: wire/agency bylines (AP, Reuters, AFP, PRNewswire, Business Wire), "according to"/"in a statement"/"the company announced" attribution phrases, near-identical phrasing across outlets in a narrow time window. If found, follow the chain to the root per engine/origin-tracing.md — usually t