How We Choose Sources
What we publish, what we link to, and what we leave out.
Three Ways to Read
Originals are longer explainers written by our desk using multiple sources. Briefings summarize a source article and add our own context. Both live on Trill News, with publication dates and source credits. External articles are publisher headlines gathered automatically from RSS feeds roughly every four hours. Their labels identify the publisher, and their links open that publisher's story. We do not reproduce another outlet's full article.
Which Feeds We Trust
We maintain a list of publisher feeds and topic searches. Editors assign feeds to sections and topics; article-specific assignments can correct stories whose subject differs from their feed. Only articles that pass our reading-access checks can appear. Topic match and recency help order eligible stories, and publisher limits keep one source from filling a topic.
What We Block
We select reading links from publishers reviewed for free access without a subscription or account, and check the destination articles before including them. Unverified links are held back, including links discovered through aggregators. On older features, source credits remain visible when a reading link is unavailable. Publishers can change their access rules; please report a link you cannot read through our corrections page. We also exclude content farms and sites where advertising makes the story hard to find. We maintain a list of subjects we do not cover. We cap how many stories any one publisher can contribute to a topic, so a single prolific source cannot crowd out everyone else.
REPORT A PROBLEM WITH A SOURCEHow These Stories Are Made
Trill News uses AI assistance to draft, and a person reviews and edits our Originals, briefings, and evergreen editorial copy before publication. We would rather say that plainly than let you guess.
Where it applies, specifically. A feature's summary is drafted from a single source article that an editor has read in full, then checked line by line against that source. The Why It Matters briefing beneath it is our own commentary rather than a summary, researched against at least one other outlet's reporting, and every link in it is fetched and read before it ships. Section primers are evergreen background, written once and checked to contain nothing that can go out of date. Headlines are drafted as a set of options and a person picks one.
Trill News Originals are longer explainers that bring together multiple sources, with links beside the claims they support. They follow the same AI assistance and review process. These pieces explain published evidence; they do not claim interviews or firsthand reporting unless that work is explicitly described.
Where it does not apply at all: the External articles feed generates no text. It fetches RSS, removes duplicates and blocked sites, and ranks what is left by topic match and recency. The words you read there are the publisher's own, and the link goes to them.
Images. Every photograph on a feature is either public domain or carries an open license that permits reuse, and it is stored and served by Trill News rather than loaded from the publisher we are linking to. Where a license asks for attribution, the credit appears under the image with a link to the license. Features without a suitable openly licensed image show our own default rather than borrow one.
What we will not do. We do not publish invented quotes, invented statistics or invented sources. Facts belong to the reporting we cite; the judgment about why a story matters is ours, and we own it. When we get something wrong we correct it in place and say so.
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