Graphic: news flowing into/out from a multi-stage tagging process

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We aggregate financial news headlines from the web; we add multiple stages of meta data to each headline; we distribute the final product via an API feed.

Target audience is developers at financial institutions.

I need a graphic (for use in my website) that shows our internal multi-step process of capturing headlines, adding 4 stages of useful meta-data, and then our data flowing out the other side to customers.

I would like, if possible, a certain level of animation showing the flow of data.

In detail, this process:

-pulls news headlines from thousands of sources worldwide
-groups them into appropriate editorial categories
-retains existing tags 1
-adds category tags 2
-adds ticker tags 3
-adds semantic tags 4
THEN out to our API

I have attached two graphics:

- the first is my very raw rendition of this process. You can base your design on this very rough idea.

- the second is a graphic I pulled from another (unrelated) website that shows the look I would like for this graphic.