Sample news article: what a timely piece looks like

A news article is plain prose rather than the full scaffold. It reports something that happened, says who it affects, and says plainly what stage the evidence is at.

Its publishedDate is deliberately in the past. A sample dated today would put a fake story in the Google News sitemap of every site stamped from this template, which is exactly the kind of thing nobody notices until it is indexed.

type: news is doing four jobs at once here: it puts this piece on the news page, it makes the article eligible for the news sitemap, it switches the structured data from Article to NewsArticle, and it keeps the piece out of the curated library. That is why newsLane is required alongside it.

Delete this file once the site has real content.