Editorial standards
Unbiased Brief follows the editorial standards shared by every LetterHouseMedia publication. This page explains how they apply to our political coverage. The full LetterHouseMedia editorial standards are the source of truth if the two differ.
Facts without narrative
News reports what happened in neutral language. Unbiased Brief has no house opinion and does not editorialise. Factual claims are kept separate from interpretation and attributed arguments.
Each side's strongest case
On a contested story, we set out each side's strongest argument, attributed to the people or groups making it and linked to its sources. The arguments sit side by side so readers can see the disagreement for themselves.
Factual claims inside those arguments must pass the same checks as everything else. Our fact-checkers do not see the publication's viewpoint or which side a claim belongs to.
Sourcing
Primary and wire sources support factual claims: official records, court documents, filings, peer-reviewed research and wire reports. Other reporting and commentary can provide context or point us to a story, but does not by itself support a factual claim. Content farms, known fabricators and AI-spam sites are blocked and never cited.
We fetch and save every cited source during research. Checks use that saved copy. Quotes must match the original exactly and be attributed to the speaker. Each issue lists its sources with links.
How we check facts
Our newsroom is AI-assisted.
- AI drafts; checks decide. AI models draft issues. Every factual sentence is broken into individual claims for checking.
- Automated checks first. Code checks quotes, numbers, dates and links against the cited sources.
- Two independent fact-checkers. Models from two different AI providers review each claim against saved sources without seeing each other's verdict. A claim stays only if both find it supported. Otherwise it is rewritten or softened; any claim still in dispute is cut.
- Approval gates. No issue sends until every required check passes. Approval is pinned to the exact final version.
AI makes mistakes. These checks do not make us infallible. Corrections are part of the process.
Labels
News is factual reporting in neutral language. Analysis interprets facts and must cite them. Opinion is a stated viewpoint, labelled with a byline. Sponsored content is paid for, labelled and kept visibly separate from editorial. These labels follow the shared LetterHouseMedia standards; they do not give Unbiased Brief a house opinion.
Corrections
When we get a fact wrong, we correct it in the next issue and on the web version of the affected issue, with the date of the correction. The corrections page lists those changes and explains how to report an error.