How we report

We publish two kinds of stories. Both are built on primary records and published with their sources.

How each story is made

Reported and written by journalists, with research help from Sourcebase. Not AI-generated.

Recurring roundups. Sourcebase gathers the sources and writes a draft. An editor checks it, revises it and publishes it.

Each roundup starts with Sourcebase and ends with an editor. Here is how it works for Trump Overnight.

Gather the sources. Each roundup draws from a defined Sourcebase collection. The Trump Overnight collection holds every Truth Social post by Donald Trump, more than 34,000, and around 7,000 videos of his public appearances since 2007.
Prepare the draft. The Sourcebase agent prepares a draft from the collection, with citations pointing to the passages behind its claims.
Verify and revise. A human editor checks the claims and citations, looking for errors, missing context and conclusions that go further than the documents allow. They can cut, rewrite and add their own analysis, and they are responsible for the finished piece.
Publish with sources. The finished roundup includes its sources so readers can examine the evidence themselves.

We do not use AI to fill gaps in the evidence. This applies to both our featured articles and our roundups.

Allegations are described as allegations.
A source must support the statement attached to it.
If a claim cannot be supported, it does not belong in the article.
When a published statement is wrong or unsupported, we correct it in place and add a dated note explaining the change.