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Which journalists? City papers have managed their writing/editing workflows in software specifically meant for newsrooms since long before there were GUIs. Freelancers, maybe?

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Keep in mind "journalist" is a broad term now. Most blogs or new media mastheads work that way or track changes in Google Docs/G Suite/whatever. In general, I'd assume you're right about traditional papers, who I'd expect to work the way you suggest.

Smart money is following what WaPo is doing in that space with Arc. They've begun to corner that market.

Is there a standard workflow for talking to sources?

No, but there certainly is for filing stories and running them through a series of editing desks.

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