NiemanLab: “The ways people hear about big news these days; “into a million pieces,” says source. It’s not often that massive political news breaks on a Sunday afternoon — especially one in steamy late July, the leading edge of the Greater August vacation season. But break news Joe Biden most certainly did with this tweet announcing he would not run for reelection this fall. And as always, that big news reached people in a wide variety of ways. Like from Shams Charania, whose usual big breaks involve NBA trades (“how does this impact LeBron’s legacy”). Social media has encouraged people to think that, if the news is really important, it’ll find them. So how did it find people on Sunday? I subscribe to an inordinate number of breaking-news emails, so in my inbox at least, the earliest senders in order were: Axios, Gannett, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Dallas Morning News, Vanity Fair, The Advocate (Baton Rouge, La.), Bloomberg, The New Yorker, The Washington Post, The 19th, Vox. (YMMV, of course.) And Matt Taylor of the Financial Times was tracking push notifications as they came in; congrats to CNBC. Here’s an obviously incomplete list of some of the ways that Americans and others around the world heard the news…”