story
When the Daily Planet broke the story, nobody could believe it.
After it had been ignored by American news channels, it was the BBC that finally broke the story.
He broke the story about the missing child two weeks ago, and he has been covering it ever since.
Two young reporters broke the corruption story in the Guardian.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Revealing secrets & becoming known
anti-secrecy
backchannel
bare
bare your heart/soulidiom
blow someone's coveridiom
blow/take the lid off somethingidiom
declassify
hold
huddle
kiss
rat
rat on someone/something
reintroduce
revealingly
revelatory
state's evidence
surface
tip
transpire
unravel