Article (publishing)

An article or piece is a written work published in a print or electronic medium, for the propagation of news, research results, academic analysis or debate.

References to people can also be made through the written accounts of interviews and debates confirming the factuality of the writer's information and the reliability of his source.

While a good conclusion is an important ingredient for newspaper articles, the immediacy of a deadline environment means that copy editing occasionally takes the form of deleting everything past an arbitrary point in the story corresponding to the dictates of available space on a page.

If the less vital details are pushed toward the end of the story, then the potentially destructive impact of draconian copy editing will be minimized.

The most common formats of transmission are HTML, PDF and, in specialized fields like mathematics and physics, TeX and PostScript.