Perhaps publishing platforms should be constructed the whole story in mind instead of just optimizing the process for each individual article.

"Narrative built in the platform" is one of my Top 10 Media Innovation Ideas. I'm publishing one media innovation each day during the ten first days of October.

One article is seldom the whole story in journalistic narratives. Just like any other story, also journalistic stories have a beginning, a middle and an end.

Modern web publishing platforms take this into account by providing "relevant links" below each story. Sometimes that works, sometimes it doesn't.

I'm proposing that someone could built a publishing platform, perhaps with Drupal, that takes the characteristic of a journalistic narrative into account. In this publishing platform, journalist first selects if the article she is writing is a beginning, a continuum or a closing statement regarding the story. Then she writes and publishes the story as she normally would.

To the readers, the beginnings are shown as new stories. If the story continues, for those who find the middle article first there is always a link to the "beginning" story providing additional context.

In the publishing platform, journalists can always see what stories have not been concluded yet. What happened Julian Assange after he was finally out of the scope of the press? These stories could be a very nice addition to slow news days.