History article on news — too brief (6)
I believe the answer is:
annals
'history' is the definition.
(annals is a kind of history)
'article on news too brief' is the wordplay.
'article' becomes 'a' (the indefinite article in English).
'on' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'news' becomes 'nn' (an abbreviation for new written twice).
'too' becomes 'also' (synonyms).
'brief' means to remove the last letter (a shorter or briefer version of the word).
'also' with its final letter taken off is 'als'.
'a'+'nn'+'als'='ANNALS'
(Other definitions for annals that I've seen before include "Archives" , "Records of past events" , "The Four Masters wrote them in 17th century" , "Yearly records" , "Registers" .)