I don’t know if these people are just not good at it, or if journalism has changed for some reason. In a story about the incumbent mayor losing, why would the author write about the person she defeated in 2020 one or two paragraphs before mentioning the name person who defeated her in 2024? You know, the new mayor?
This kind of writing style is more and more common. I am just guessing, but it may have something to do with advertising revenues. If you have to read several paragraphs before you get the information, you will see more ads and stay on the page longer. And those stats are used to sell advertising “our readers stay on our pages 20% longer than the other news sites” type of thing.
Maybe written by AI? Probably not given how horribly it’s written.