How this paper is made

CiviPress.News proves one idea: a news filter can be stated in plain language, applied by an AI editor, and shown to readers along with everything it left out.

Who writes it

An AI editor writes every article. There are no reporters and no human sign-off before publication. The editor reads United Nations feeds and nothing else — 27 RSS and Atom feeds from UN News, the Security Council and General Assembly press desks, and UN agencies. It cannot check what a UN body claims; it reports who said it.

The brief

Each edition has a brief: its editorial policy in plain language, saying who the paper is for, what matters, what to leave out, and how to write. The brief is public and versioned. Readers see it exactly as the editor does.

A daily run

1. Fetch every source feed and store the new items.
2. One AI call reads the brief and the day's items and selects 5 to 8 stories. For every item it does not use, it gives a reason.
3. For each story, one AI call writes the report from the full text of its source items, and a second writes the closing commentary.
4. Automated checks run on every article: it cites at least one source item; its body is 300 to 600 words; every quotation appears word for word in a cited source; every number and date appears in a cited source. An article that fails is moved to the cut list.
5. The issue is published and this site is rebuilt. With fewer than three passing articles the issue is held and the operator is alerted. The previous issue stays live.

The weekly review

Once a week, on the day the edition sets, a second run reads the daily issues of the seven days before and writes 5 to 8 stories reviewing the week. It is written from this paper's own published reports and nothing else, and goes through the same checks: a review story is verified against the reports it draws on, which were themselves verified against their UN sources. Each review story lists those reports and cites their sources; a report the review passes over appears on the review's cut list with a reason.

The rules for a report

• Use only facts present in the supplied source items, and attribute each claim to the body that made it.
• Never invent a quotation.
• Add no background from outside the sources.
• Keep opinion out of the report. It belongs in the closing section only.

What would Mark Twain say?

Every article may end with a short commentary under this title, 80 to 150 words, written by the AI editor in the manner of Mark Twain. It is the only place the editor gives an opinion and the only place it may reach past the day's sources. It is never a quotation and never contains one; every instance carries a fixed label saying so. Mark Twain died in 1910 and said none of it.

What readers can check

• Every article lists the source items it was written from, with links.
• Every issue has a cut list: each item the editor considered and did not use, with a reason.
• Every issue ends with a colophon: the brief version applied and the items considered, used and cut.
• Every issue has a permanent address, /us-desk/ followed by its date.
• Every edition has an Atom feed and a JSON Feed carrying each article in full, and an edition page with every way to follow it.

What this site does not do

No accounts, no cookies, no analytics and no third-party scripts. The layout and colour choices in the Display menu are saved on your device alone. The site installs as an app and keeps the latest eight issues readable offline.