“Yesterday, Airbnb went public at a price of $X. It has revenue of $Y. It was founded in year Z...”

Versus

“In 2008, the genius Brian Chesky woke up on a frigid San Francisco morning with a crick in his neck and looked out on the fog. He had just had a terrible experience with an evil multinational hotel chain...”

(Just a hyperbolic example, not meant to be all encompassing)

It’s less of a measurable outcome and more of a goal and methodology.

None of that is news. That's an almanac entry.

Buddhist monks were traditionally encouraged to begin all teachings with a Pali language equivalent of Thus I have heard... https://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/an/an04/an04.183.th...

AP and Reuters routinely do that.

Really? You think these aren't "stories"?

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-migran...

https://apnews.com/article/election-2020-donald-trump-politi...

No cherry picking whatsoever here. These are just the first links on the respective news services' "top news" pages.

“Routinely” does not mean “always”, especially as their own consumer facing news feeds are not the same as their news syndication.

You can redefine "routinely" to mean just about anything. I "routinely" get my car's oil changed about once every 6 months. All I did was go straight to their site and pick out literally the first link in a list, and 2/2 were most definitely stories.