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This style of news writing (headings in the form of a question followed by a paragraph of answer) had already started before widespread use of LLMs to write news stories. Particularly in papers targeted at mass audiences such as USA Today (also seen in their the many local papers that Gannett has assimilated).

Yes and even in the New York Times[†], but somehow it's still different in some way I can't articulate.

[†] Q&A format: https://archive.is/20250828121105/https://www.nytimes.com/20... ;

Bulleted list with bold format: https://archive.is/g8K5w#live-feed-items

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