Clarity
Plain language, useful context, and no manufactured urgency.
About News Journal
The work behind
the briefing.
Designed to make the day’s reporting easier to understand.
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Our mission
Signal over noise.
The news should leave you better oriented, not merely more alerted. We focus on consequential developments, the context around them, and the reporting needed to understand what comes next.
Transparency
Every briefing identifies and links to the reporting behind it.
Proportion
Prominence reflects public importance, not outrage or novelty like typical news outlets.
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Editorial standards
What every story must do.
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Stay inside the evidence
Briefings may use only facts present in their cited source material. Unsupported claims, invented quotations, and implied certainty are not acceptable.
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Name the reporting
Publisher names, original headlines, and direct links remain attached to each story so readers can inspect the underlying work.
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Original language
News Journal briefings are written in original language rather than reproducing source articles.
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Preserve uncertainty
When facts are preliminary, disputed, or incomplete, the briefing will say so rather than smoothing over ambiguity.
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Correct the record
Material errors are corrected promptly. Updated editions retain their sources so changes can be checked as the reporting changes.
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Label partnerships
Features arranged with a business through our partnerships program are labeled “Partner feature” wherever they appear and carry a disclosure on the article itself.
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Our external sources
Reporting worth following.
The collector reads public RSS feeds and publicly available article pages. It does not bypass paywalls. Source links remain on every briefing because News Journal is a guide to original reporting, not a substitute for it.
BBC NewsNPRPBS NewsHourThe GuardianThe VergeArs TechnicaSmithsonian MagazineNASAGrist
A publisher’s inclusion does not imply endorsement of News Journal. Individual story pages identify the exact sources used for that briefing.
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How we use AI
Local by design.
Drafting runs on a locally hosted model. It produces structured, original summaries that are instructed to avoid invented facts or quotations.
Modelqwen3.6:27b
Publishing ruleMulti-source
Source trailAlways visible
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Corrections
Errors are corrected.
Material errors are traced, corrected, or withdrawn. Every published briefing is archived over time and retains links to the reporting used to create it.