run a story

idiom

: to print an article
The magazine ran a story about the scandal.

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Just one day after Hubel listed the home, Zillow Gone Wild — a social media account dedicated to the weird and quirky corners of Zillow — reached out to him asking to run a story about it. Praveena Somasundaram, Washington Post, 25 Aug. 2023 The Record checked the tip, but didn’t run a story. Evan Rosen, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Aug. 2023 The British tabloid MailOnline depends on Facebook for much of its traffic, for example, and any inference of a threat to its business from Facebook's No. 2 executive could have strongly influenced its decision not to run a story on either occasion. Fortune, 22 Apr. 2022 But the Chronicle never would have run a story this explosive without intense internal debate and scrutiny of the not-for-attribution sourcing. Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 15 Apr. 2022 Falcone killed the reporter when the elder Wayne merely requested he be made too scared to run a story. Ryan Parker, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Mar. 2022 But weeks had passed and the Journal had not yet run a story. Patrick Radden Keefe, The New Yorker, 17 Jan. 2022

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“Run a story.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/run%20a%20story. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.

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