Rant and rave freely about newspaper story (9)
I believe the answer is:
narrative
'story' is the definition.
(I know that story can be written as narrative)
'rant and rave freely about newspaper' is the wordplay.
'and' says to put letters next to each other.
'freely' is an anagram indicator.
'about' is an insertion indicator.
'newspaper' becomes 'i' (UK newspaper).
'rant' put after 'rave' is 'raverant'.
'raverant' is an anagram of 'narratve'.
'narratve' enclosing 'i' is 'NARRATIVE'.
(Other definitions for narrative that I've seen before include "Popeye's vegetable" , "Story recounting events" , "Tale" , "relation" , "Telling a story" .)