Reuters Connect Content Item

{
  "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
  "$id": "https://github.com/kinlane/reuters/json-schema/reuters-item-schema.json",
  "title": "Reuters Connect Content Item",
  "description": "A content item from the Reuters Connect API representing a piece of editorial content such as a news story, image, video clip, or graphic. Items follow the IPTC NewsML-G2 standard and may be Simple News Items (SNI), News Event Packages (NEP), or Super News Event Packages (SNEP) for composite content.",
  "type": "object",
  "required": [
    "id",
    "headline",
    "dateCreated",
    "mediaType"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "id": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "The unique identifier for the item, typically in tag URI format (e.g., tag:reuters.com,2025:newsml_L1N3KT0AB:1). Includes the version number as a suffix.",
      "examples": [
        "tag:reuters.com,2025:newsml_L1N3KT0AB:1"
      ]
    },
    "guid": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "A globally unique identifier for the item regardless of version. This identifier remains stable across revisions of the same content.",
      "examples": [
        "tag:reuters.com,2025:newsml_L1N3KT0AB"
      ]
    },
    "version": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "The version number of this item revision. Incremented each time the item is updated.",
      "examples": [
        "1",
        "2"
      ]
    },
    "headline": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "The headline or title of the content item. For text stories, this is the story headline. For images and video, this is the caption title.",
      "maxLength": 500
    },
    "slug": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "A short keyword slug summarizing the item topic, typically used for internal categorization and routing.",
      "examples": [
        "USA-ELECTION",
        "MARKETS-STOCKS",
        "SOCCER-CHAMPIONS"
      ]
    },
    "dateCreated": {
      "type": "string",
      "format": "date-time",
      "description": "The date and time when the item was originally created, in ISO 8601 format."
    },
    "dateModified": {
      "type": "string",
      "format": "date-time",
      "description": "The date and time when the item was last modified, in ISO 8601 format."
    },
    "channel": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "The alias of the channel this item belongs to. Channels represent curated feeds of editorial content."
    },
    "mediaType": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "The media type classification of the content item.",
      "enum": [
        "TEXT",
        "PICTURE",
        "VIDEO",
        "GRAPHIC",
        "COMPOSITE"
      ]
    },
    "urgency": {
      "type": "integer",
      "description": "The editorial urgency priority of the item, following the IPTC urgency scale where 1 is the most urgent and 9 is the least urgent.",
      "minimum": 1,
      "maximum": 9
    },
    "byline": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "The author or creator attribution for the item. May include the reporter name, photographer name, or agency credit."
    },
    "dateline": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "The location and date line for the item, typically formatted as CITY, Month Day (e.g., NEW YORK, March 4).",
      "examples": [
        "NEW YORK, March 4",
        "LONDON, Feb 28"
      ]
    },
    "language": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "The ISO 639-1 language code of the content.",
      "examples": [
        "en",
        "fr",
        "de",
        "es"
      ]
    },
    "body": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "The full text body of the content item. For text items, this contains the story body which may include XHTML markup. For media items, this may contain a caption or extended description."
    },
    "subjects": {
      "type": "array",
      "description": "Subject classification codes assigned to the item, following the IPTC NewsCodes taxonomy for consistent categorization.",
      "items": {
        "$ref": "#/$defs/subject"
      }
    },
    "renditions": {
      "type": "array",
      "description": "Available renditions of the content. For images and video, this includes different sizes, resolutions, and formats available for download.",
      "items": {
        "$ref": "#/$defs/rendition"
      }
    },
    "associations": {
      "type": "array",
      "description": "Related items associated with this content, such as images accompanying a text story, video related to an event, or other cross-referenced editorial content.",
      "items": {
        "$ref": "#/$defs/association"
      }
    }
  },
  "$defs": {
    "subject": {
      "type": "object",
      "description": "A subject classification code from the IPTC NewsCodes taxonomy.",
      "properties": {
        "code": {
          "type": "string",
          "description": "The IPTC subject code identifier.",
          "examples": [
            "04000000",
            "11000000"
          ]
        },
        "name": {
          "type": "string",
          "description": "The human-readable name of the subject category.",
          "examples": [
            "economy, business and finance",
            "politics"
          ]
        }
      }
    },
    "rendition": {
      "type": "object",
      "description": "A specific rendition or format of a media item available for download.",
      "properties": {
        "name": {
          "type": "string",
          "description": "The name or label of the rendition indicating its purpose or size.",
          "examples": [
            "thumbnail",
            "preview",
            "baseImage",
            "videoFile"
          ]
        },
        "href": {
          "type": "string",
          "format": "uri",
          "description": "The URL to download this rendition of the content."
        },
        "mimetype": {
          "type": "string",
          "description": "The MIME type of the rendition file.",
          "examples": [
            "image/jpeg",
            "video/mp4",
            "application/pdf"
          ]
        },
        "width": {
          "type": "integer",
          "description": "The width of the rendition in pixels (for images and video)."
        },
        "height": {
          "type": "integer",
          "description": "The height of the rendition in pixels (for images and video)."
        },
        "sizeinbytes": {
          "type": "integer",
          "description": "The file size of the rendition in bytes."
        }
      }
    },
    "association": {
      "type": "object",
      "description": "A reference to an associated content item.",
      "properties": {
        "id": {
          "type": "string",
          "description": "The unique identifier of the associated item."
        },
        "type": {
          "type": "string",
          "description": "The type of association describing the relationship between items.",
          "examples": [
            "companion",
            "related",
            "seeAlso"
          ]
        },
        "headline": {
          "type": "string",
          "description": "The headline of the associated item."
        },
        "mediaType": {
          "type": "string",
          "description": "The media type of the associated item."
        }
      }
    }
  }
}