How this newsroom works
Most news you read has been through one pair of hands and one deadline. Every story here goes through the same fixed sequence of checks before anyone sees it — corroboration against other outlets, a claim-by-claim fact file, and a pass against the parts of UK media law that routinely catch newsrooms out. Then it keeps being checked after publication.
The sequence every story goes through
Read everything
121 feeds from 64 publishers are swept every five minutes — national outlets, regional titles, and primary sources like the courts service, police forces, the Office for National Statistics and the Met Office.
Match the story across outlets
The same event reported by six outlets is one story, not six. Reports are grouped and the number of independent outlets carrying it is counted. That count is shown on the article, so you can see how well corroborated something is before you read it.
Build a fact file
Before a word is written, the claims are pulled out and listed separately: what is alleged, who said it, the named people and their roles, the numbers, the dates. Each one is tied to the outlet that reported it. The article is then written from that file — so every statement in it traces back to a source.
Write it plainly
Factual, attributed, in Steve's voice. No opinion column dressed as reporting, no adjectives doing an argument's work, no manufactured outrage. If a fact is disputed, the article says who disputes it.
Run the checks
This is the part most automated news skips. Nothing publishes until it clears all of them, and a story that fails any one is held back for Steve rather than pushed out:
Claim verificationEvery factual claim is checked back against the source reporting. Anything unsupported is cut.AttributionAn allegation has to read as an allegation. "Police say" and "is charged with" — never stated as established fact.Contempt of courtWhere proceedings are active, coverage is held to the safe formula. No previous convictions, no material that could prejudice a jury.Anonymity in lawComplainants in sexual offence cases have lifetime anonymity; under-18s are protected in many proceedings. Identifying detail is stripped before publication, not after.ToneChecked against Steve's register — plain, calm, no hype and no editorialising.Not a repeatChecked against everything published in the last three days so the same story is updated, not run twice.Worth runningA last question: does this actually earn a slot, or is it a press release with a headline on it?Publish
The page goes live with its own thumbnail and its source list. If Steve films it, the video is attached to the same page — and labelled as AI-presented, because the presenter is a consented AI avatar of Steve.
Keep watching it
This is the part that makes the site different from a feed. An article is not finished when it publishes.
Articles that keep updating themselves
A story published two hours after it breaks is thin — one outlet, few details, no official confirmation yet. Most sites leave that first version up forever. Here, a published story stays on watch for three days, and for two weeks where a court case is involved.
Every one of those rewrites goes back through the full set of checks — the same legal and factual gates as the original. Updates are listed on the article itself with the time they were made, so you can see how a story developed rather than only where it ended up.
Where the human sits
Steve Rowland is a real person, the founder and editor, and the newsroom answers to him. He reviews what publishes, films the video coverage, and can pull any article offline in one click. Automated checks decide what is safe enough to run; they do not decide what the site stands for.
Things we will not do
- We never take photographs or footage from other news organisations. Facts, quotes and a link to their reporting — never their pictures. Images here come from openly licensed libraries or official releases, and every one is logged.
- We never present AI-generated imagery as real footage of something that happened.
- We don't run opinion as news, and we don't take payment to cover a story.
What this doesn't fix
Being straight with you about the limits matters more than the sales pitch:
- Checks reduce risk; they do not eliminate it. If the outlets we read get something wrong, we can repeat it — which is exactly why the watch loop exists, and why corrections are published openly.
- A story carried by one outlet is published marked as developing, and firms up as others confirm it. The label is there so you can weigh it.
- Some reporting restrictions are only announced inside a courtroom. Where a story looks legally sensitive it is held for Steve rather than published automatically.
- This is a small, independent operation. If we've got something wrong, tell us — corrections are logged and dated, not quietly edited away.
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