About · The newsroom
120 reporters in 38 U.S. cities, edited in New York, Washington, Chicago, Denver and Los Angeles. No outside owner and no party line.
We publish around 60 stories a day, two newsletters every morning and a daily podcast — and we read every word before you do.

Stories a day
U.S. bureaus
Corrections logged
Since 1998
Reader funded
2026 budget
How a story gets made
Breaking news moves faster, but it skips none of them.
A reader email, a court filing or a reporter’s hunch.
Interviews, records requests and time on the ground.
An editor pushes on every claim and every word.
Names, numbers and quotes are checked line by line.
Then we keep following it, and correct it in public.
So you can hold us to them.
Every fact in a story is checked by the reporter and the editor. Numbers, quotes and names get a second read by our copy desk before publishing. When we cannot confirm something, we say so in the story.
We name sources whenever we can. Anonymous sources are used only when the information is important, cannot be found another way and two editors approve. We explain why the person asked not to be named.
Mistakes are fixed as soon as we find them. A note at the top of the story says what was wrong and when it was corrected. Every correction is listed on our corrections page.
Advertisers, sponsors and members never see stories before they are published. Staff may not donate to campaigns or hold stock in companies they cover.
In 2026, 71% of our money came from subscriptions, 18% from advertising and 11% from events and licensing. We publish our full finances every spring.
Our journalists
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“A newsroom earns trust one corrected comma at a time. That’s slow work, and it’s the only kind worth doing.”— Marcus Bell, Chief Political Correspondent
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