diff --git a/link/INTEGRATION.md b/link/INTEGRATION.md
index 9b2f943..ef9105f 100644
--- a/link/INTEGRATION.md
+++ b/link/INTEGRATION.md
@@ -477,6 +477,28 @@ DELETE /towncrier/{id}
 
 Caps apply (line count/length, active entries, duration); an over-cap post returns `towncrier.error`.
 
+### Publish / remove Town Cryer **news** (Protocol 2.1)
+
+Distinct from the scrolling-crier lines above: this puts a full article — title, HTML body, image, and a "more info" URL — into the in-game **Town Cryer News gump**, and (by default) has the criers proclaim the **title** in-world.
+
+```
+POST /news
+{ "id": "42", "title": "Double XP Weekend",
+  "body": "<CENTER>Double XP Weekend</CENTER><BR><BR>Starts Friday 7PM.",
+  "image": 1614, "url": "https://yoursite/news/42" }
+```
+→ **200** `{"kind":"news.ok","id":"42"}`. Re-posting the same `id` **replaces** the prior article in place.
+
+- `id`, `title` required. `body` (HTML supported), `image` (a UO gump id; a neutral scroll if omitted), `url` (a browser button in the gump) optional.
+- `announce` defaults to **true** — the criers proclaim the title. Send `"announce": false` to post silently (e.g. a correction).
+
+```
+DELETE /news/{id}
+```
+→ **200** `{"kind":"news.ok","id":"42"}`, or **404** `{"kind":"news.error","reason":"unknown id"}`.
+
+Caps apply (title/body length, max active articles). The **website is the source of truth**: the shard rebuilds its news list on restart and does not persist yours, so the sidecar automatically re-pushes your articles (silently) whenever the shard reconnects. Stock ServUO news is left intact — your articles are tracked separately.
+
 ### Staff moderation — the write plane
 
 Account and session moderation against the live shard. **These are privileged.** The sidecar does
diff --git a/link/PROTOCOL_2.md b/link/PROTOCOL_2.md
index a3f0d46..7da8a15 100644
--- a/link/PROTOCOL_2.md
+++ b/link/PROTOCOL_2.md
@@ -482,7 +482,7 @@ Deployed the overlay to the ServUO checkout, booted the shard and the real sidec
 
 ## 16. Town Cryer news — website articles into the news gump (Protocol 2.1)
 
-**Status:** Design, grounded in the shard's `Scripts/Services/Town Cryer/` files. Not yet built.
+**Status:** **Built and smoke-tested live** (2026-07-17). `BridgeNews.cs` (pure overlay, no stock edit) + `POST /news` / `DELETE /news/{id}` + reconnect replay. Verified against a booted shard: `news.add` (full + title-only) → `news.ok`, missing title → 400, idempotent replace, `news.remove` → `news.ok`, unknown id → `news.error`, no shard exceptions, and the **reconnect replay** confirmed (after a shard restart the stored article was re-pushed with `announce:false` and re-accepted). The gump rendering itself is verified by source inspection (needs a UO client to view).
 
 There are **two** distinct town-crier surfaces in ServUO, and 2.0 has so far touched only the first:
 
@@ -514,7 +514,7 @@ Everything else in the pasted note stands, and the "this is one of the easier in
 On an inbound article the bridge does two things on the Core thread:
 
 1. **News gump** — build `new TownCryerNewsEntry(new TextDefinition(title), new TextDefinition(body), image, null, url)` and `Insert(0, …)` at the top of `TownCryerSystem.NewsEntries`, tracking it in `_ours`; trim `_ours` past the cap by removing the oldest (from both `_ours` and `NewsEntries`).
-2. **Say the title** — reuse the scrolling-crier path (`GlobalTownCrierEntryList`, as `BridgeTownCrier` does) to announce a single line, the **title only**, for a short duration, so the crier proclaims it in-world. Optional per article (`announce: true`), so silent corrections don't re-proclaim.
+2. **Say the title** — reuse the scrolling-crier path (`GlobalTownCrierEntryList`, as `BridgeTownCrier` does) to announce a single line, the **title only**, for a short duration, so the crier proclaims it in-world. **On by default**; set `announce: false` on an article to suppress it (e.g. a silent correction that should not re-proclaim).
 
 ### 16.4 Protocol
 
@@ -522,7 +522,8 @@ On an inbound article the bridge does two things on the Core thread:
 // website → sidecar → shard
 {"kind":"news.add","id":"42","title":"Double XP Weekend",
  "body":"<CENTER>Double XP Weekend</CENTER><BR><BR>Starts Friday 7PM.",
- "image":1614,"url":"https://uomysticmoon.com/news/42","announce":true}
+ "image":1614,"url":"https://uomysticmoon.com/news/42"}
+// announce defaults to true; add "announce":false to suppress the crier proclamation
 {"kind":"news.remove","id":"42"}
 ```