How quickly can ORM actually push down a news story that ranks on page 1?

The realistic answer is the unwelcome one. A fresh authoritative news article on page one cannot be reliably displaced within days. The Google algorithm weights authoritative sources highly, especially fresh ones, and AI engines amplify the same signals. What can happen within days is preparation: stand up the monitoring, produce the authoritative response content, identify the source-level inputs the engines are weighting, and stabilize the operational tempo. The actual displacement happens over weeks to months as authoritative competing content gains authority signals, as the news cycle ages, and as sustained source-level work erodes the inputs that were holding the contested article in place. Anyone promising week-one pushdown of a fresh tier-one news result is overpromising, and the resulting work tends to fail visibly within a quarter.