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N the news media are subject to the social scrutiny because of the lack of credibility, the manipulative media, the misinformation campaigns, and the propagation of fake news [1]⁠. In [2]⁠, Lazer et al. point out that the main difference between fake news and true news relies on lack editorial norms and processes that ensure the accuracy and credibility of the information. Thus, to arrange a way that allows guaranteeing these editorial processes (or at least part of them) can suppose a big step in the fight against the above-mentioned issues. Also, in their work, Lazer et al. mentioned as an effective intervention to empowering individuals to evaluate the news. This way, end-users and fact-checking agencies like factcheck. org, snopes.com, politifact.com, hoax-slayer.com, truthorfiction.com, urbanlegends.about.com, newtral.es, or maldita.es, need a way to check and verify the information published in different media. Is in this scenario where the journalistic transparency [3]–[8]⁠ has emerged as an essential concept to face the aforementioned issues. Applying the principle of journalistic transparency allows the readers to corroborate the information by directly follow the editorial processes and easily going to the source of the news and checking their veracity. So much so that transparency in journalism is currently a key element in performing serious and rigorous journalism. This transparency principle allows direct access to the source of essential content to contrast the information it contains and even to know whether it has been manipulated. Giving the right tools to guarantee the journalism process and allowing the users to verify the information are key concepts because humans tend to spread false news more than truth [9]⁠. Additionally, allowing to check the journalism processes followed in the news stories, to track the evolution of the news reports and the relevant data and information it contains as they change over time, and therefore to trace how the related news evolves, constitute other instruments to face the previous issues. This is not only useful for endreaders but for fact-checking agencies and those tools that perform automatic indexing and extraction of relevant information of news. Once the information has been verified and fact-checked, these tools need a way to guarantee that the extracted data have not changed. Combining these key matters in just one approach will suppose a starting point to solve the issues we mentioned at the beginning of the section. However, as far as we know, there is no mechanism that allows guaranteeing to check the transparency and traceability of the information by monitoring the evolution of the news from the event that causes them, its possible manipulation during the dissemination process, and estimating the reputation and credibility of the media. In this scenario, this article aims to detail the use of blockchain to facilitate the principle of journalistic transparency by allowing the tracking and traceability of news stories. Blockchain will be used as a tool to guarantee the traceability process and information analysis. This way, we will be able to support the automatic indexing and extraction of relevant information from newspaper articles to facilitate the monitoring of the news story and allows end-users readers and factchecking agencies to verify the truthfulness of what they are reading. The rest of the article is structured as follows: in section II we introduce the background and basic concepts; section III details the desired requirements we established for the proposal; section IV defines Tracking News Stories Using Blockchain to Guarantee their Traceability and Information Analysis