That makes sense to me, but as a reader, I'd still value such a link for a few reasons. - It helps me believe the website is aware of the source material (vs r

That makes sense to me, but as a reader, I'd still value such a link for a few reasons. - It helps me believe the website is aware of the source material (vs re-reporting some other news site's content) - In cases where there are multiple stories over time, it makes it easier to disambiguate which story is about which event. This happens often with legal cases, where there are different judgments from different motions or even from different trials about the same underlying thing. As a lay person, I don't need to understand the source document to be able to understand that three different media outlets are discussing the same document, provided that they each link to the same document - It decreases the effort for an authority to vet the news story. This sends a signal to me that the organization welcomes such vetting, or at least thinks they'd stand up well to it