Written news articles often have a secret language to them which hints at the underlying reporting process - language like "according to \*\*two people familiar with\*\* the board’s deliberations".

I don't think these are at all obvious to people who haven't worked in news, so I wrote an article about them:

Deciphering clues in a news article to understand how it was reported  
<https://simonwillison.net/2023/Nov/22/deciphering-clues/>