7. A non-transitory computer-readable medium having stored thereon program instructions that when executed by a processor cause performance of a set of acts, the set of acts comprising: accessing, by a computing system, first data defining multiple portions of a news article, wherein the multiple portions of the news article comprise at least one of a plurality of portions including text, an image, or a hyperlink; selecting, by the computing system, from the plurality of portions including text, a subset of the portions including text, wherein the selecting is based on each portion of the selected subset having a particular characteristic, wherein each portion of the selected subset having the particular characteristic comprises each portion of the selected subset representing text and each portion of the selected subset including content from at least one section from a predefined set of sections of the news article, and further wherein the content from the at least one section of the predefined set of sections is suitable for inclusion in an audible news story; based on the text included in the portions of the selected subset, generating, by the computing system, text-based second data that includes a concatenation of the text included in the portions of the selected subset; and providing, by the computing system, output based on the generated text-based second data.
7. A non-transitory computer-readable medium having stored thereon program instructions that when executed by a processor cause performance of a set of acts, the set of acts comprising: accessing, by a computing system, first data defining multiple portions of a news article, wherein the multiple portions of the news article comprise at least one of a plurality of portions including text, an image, or a hyperlink; selecting, by the computing system, from the plurality of portions including text, a subset of the portions including text, wherein the selecting is based on each portion of the selected subset having a particular characteristic, wherein each portion of the selected subset having the particular characteristic comprises each portion of the selected subset representing text and each portion of the selected subset including content from at least one section from a predefined set of sections of the news article, and further wherein the content from the at least one section of the predefined set of sections is suitable for inclusion in an audible news story; based on the text included in the portions of the selected subset, generating, by the computing system, text-based second data that includes a concatenation of the text included in the portions of the selected subset; and providing, by the computing system, output based on the generated text-based second data. 12. The computer-readable medium of claim 7 , wherein providing output based on the text-based second data comprises transmitting to a computing device, output based on the generated text-based second data.