# Local news, kept as evidence, a collection, sgit.ai > A bridge closure followed to the end, a hospital outage nobody could check from home, and the case that local journalism has the most to gain from keeping its reporting as a graph. *Source: · site v0.7.11 · this file is generated from the same content as the page, so the two cannot drift. Every page on this site has a `.md` twin; internal links below point at them.* --- [Home](../../index.md) / [Articles](../index.md) / [Collections](index.md) / Local news, kept as evidence Collection · 6 articles · curated by the [Historian](../../newsroom/roles/historian.md) · updated 2026-10-08 # Local news, kept as evidence A bridge closure followed to the end, a hospital outage nobody could check from home, and the case that local journalism has the most to gain from keeping its reporting as a graph. The story vault was argued in September as a different shape for news: the reporting kept as a graph of claims and evidence, the article as one projection of it. In two days of October it met a practical test, and the test was local. [Story vault underneath, Reader Skills on top](../../articles/story-vault-meets-reader-skills.md) takes Markus Franz's Reader Skills and finds that each one is an operation the story graph already supports. [The bridge, followed to the end](../../articles/the-bridge-followed-to-the-end.md) plays his bridge example out as a simulation, with a published vault: a story newsworthy on five days and needed on fifty-seven. Its economics were corrected the next day, and the correction is recorded on the site. [The waiting room knew first](../../articles/the-waiting-room-knew-first.md) is the same idea on a live story: a hospital IT outage that only the people already in the waiting room knew about, with the evidence kept in a vault while the story was still moving. [Liquid content needs water](../../articles/liquid-content-needs-water.md) answers FT Strategies: what makes content liquid is the reporting inside it, so liquefy the journalist's notebook, not the finished article. The two September pieces underneath are [the future of news is a story vault, not a paywall](../../articles/future-of-news-story-vault-not-paywall.md) and [how news got here](../../articles/how-news-got-here.md). ## The articles [2026-10-07News & evidence5 threads**Story vault underneath, Reader Skills on top: why local journalism has the most to gain**Markus Franz's Reader Skills on top, the story vault underneath: each skill is a graph query, and local stories can pay back down their chain of sources.](../../articles/story-vault-meets-reader-skills.md)[2026-10-07News & evidence5 threads**The bridge, followed to the end: what one local story is worth when it is kept as a graph**A bridge closure simulated on a story vault: newsworthy on 5 days, needed on 57, used by three readers, four buyers and an agent, and paid back to its sources.](../../articles/the-bridge-followed-to-the-end.md)[2026-10-08News & evidence2 threads**The waiting room knew first: a live local story, and the gap where local information used to be**Staff at two London hospitals said the IT was down; nothing a local could check showed it. A live local story about where local information comes from now.](../../articles/the-waiting-room-knew-first.md)[2026-10-07News & evidence7 threads**Liquid content needs water: liquefy the journalist's notebook, not the finished product**A reply to FT Strategies on liquid content: the water is the reporting, so liquefy the journalist's notebook, keep the writing theirs, and pay per use.](../../articles/liquid-content-needs-water.md)[2026-09-22News & evidence7 threads**The future of news is the story vault, not the paywall**A story is a graph of claims and evidence and the article is one projection of it; keep the graph in a vault and sell what the article was made from.](../../articles/future-of-news-story-vault-not-paywall.md)[2026-09-29News & evidence6 threads**The reader was always the product: a corrected history of how news got into this mess**News has sold the reader to advertisers since 1833; the web took the monopoly, the platforms made the reader measurable, and AI took the traffic.](../../articles/how-news-got-here.md) [← All collections](index.md) · [The front page](../index.md) --- *[Site index for agents](../../llms.txt) · [HTML version](https://sgit.ai/articles/collections/local-news-kept-as-evidence.html)*