13. A computing device comprising: a communication interface; a processor; and a non-transitory computer-readable medium having stored thereon program instructions that when executed by the processor cause the computing device to perform a set of acts, the set of acts comprising: accessing, by the computing device, 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 device, 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 device, text-based second data that includes a concatenation of the text included in the portions of the selected subset; and providing, via the communication interface of the computing device, output based on the generated text-based second data.
13. A computing device comprising: a communication interface; a processor; and a non-transitory computer-readable medium having stored thereon program instructions that when executed by the processor cause the computing device to perform a set of acts, the set of acts comprising: accessing, by the computing device, 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 device, 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 device, text-based second data that includes a concatenation of the text included in the portions of the selected subset; and providing, via the communication interface of the computing device, output based on the generated text-based second data. 15. The computing device of claim 13 , wherein the selected subset having the particular characteristic further comprises each portion of the selected subset including text.