Men in foul conditions in newspaper article (5)
I believe the answer is:
story
'newspaper article' is the definition.
(newspaper story)
'men in foul conditions' is the wordplay.
'men' becomes 'OR' (military abbreviation for Other Ranks).
'in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'foul conditions' becomes 'sty' (sty can mean a dirty place).
'or' going inside 'sty' is 'STORY'.
'in' acts as a link.
(Other definitions for story that I've seen before include "Anecdote" , "See 10 and 19" , "Narration" , "Rumour" , "Account, tale" .)