Content atomization

A method of organizing and publishing content in a content management system, the method comprising:

• receiving, via one or more processors of the content management system, one or more content items, wherein each of the one or more content items comprises at least one of text, images, or video;
• segmenting, via one or more processors of the content management system, the received one or more content items into a plurality of re-orderable content atoms of a narrative, wherein each of the content atoms comprises one of text, images, or video:
• associating, via one or more processors of the content management system, one or more tags with each of the plurality of content atoms;
• configuring, via one or more processors of the content management system a presentation of the plurality of content atoms based on a first device, wherein the presentation is (i) presented via a user interface (UI) of the first device and (ii) includes, for each of the plurality of content atoms, a media decoration that is presented in association with the corresponding content atom, and that is determined based on a concept within the narrative that is derived from the text, images, or video of the corresponding content atom;
• automatically generating at last one alert, when at least one of the content atoms has been updated and when all other content atoms of the received content item have not been updated;
• and
• distributing the at least one alert to a set of devices, wherein the set of devices is determined based on the one or more tags associated with the at least one content atom.