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An article or just a snippet in the news section (4)

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I believe the answer is:

item

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'section' is the definition.
(I have seen 'section of magazine' mean 'item' so perhaps 'section' could also mean 'item')

'an article or just a snippet in the news' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'an' could be 'i' (Roman numeral for one) and 'i' is located in the answer.
'the' could be 't' (the is pronounced as a 't' sound in some dialects) and 't' is present in the answer.
The remaining letters 'em' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't understand.
This explanation may well be incorrect...

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(Other definitions for item that I've seen before include "couple making out {TIME}..." , "Separate article" , "Article, object" , "One article" , "Individual article or unit" .)

I've seen this clue in the Evening Standard.
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