About · The newsroom

We don’t chase clicks. We chase what’s true, and we show you how we got there.

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.

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Reader funded

2026 budget

How a story gets made

Five steps, every time

Breaking news moves faster, but it skips none of them.

Step 1

The tip

A reader email, a court filing or a reporter’s hunch.

Step 2

Reporting

Interviews, records requests and time on the ground.

Step 3

Editing

An editor pushes on every claim and every word.

Step 4

Fact-check

Names, numbers and quotes are checked line by line.

Step 5

Published

Then we keep following it, and correct it in public.

Standards

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.

Our journalists

The people behind the bylines

Click any name for their latest stories.

“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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