How this is made

The policies behind the paper: what a machine writes and what a person checks, the rules every line is held to, what happens to a mistake, who owns the site and who pays for it. The about page says what the paper is for. This page says how it is made, and it is written to be checked against the pages themselves. Last changed 14 September 2026.

What this is, in one paragraph

fromeach is a second read of the day's news, not a first one. Nothing here is reported first. Every fact on the site was reported somewhere else and is linked: an outlet on the wire, a court docket, a government dataset, a primary document. What the paper adds is the arrangement: the headline that says what the arrangement is, the column that walks the receipts, the two words a day for what each side is selling. The paper argues a position and says so. It is opinion, argued from sources, and that is how it is labeled in the page markup search engines read.

Who writes what

The wire is gathered by software from the public feeds of the fifty-five outlets listed on the sources page, left, mainstream and right, every thirty minutes. Headlines and excerpts belong to the outlets that wrote them and link back to them.

The house writing — the front's headlines, the columns under them, the section desks, the headline rewrites on the fixes page, the comics, and the voices of the invented staff — is drafted by a large language model working from the wire, from a fact file the editor maintains, and from a set of standing steers the editor writes. Since the paper's launch that model has been Anthropic's Claude, run from the publisher's own account. Until 10 September 2026 a Microsoft Azure deployment of OpenAI's GPT-4.1 stood in when Claude was unavailable, and for some days in early September, when the Claude account was over its limit, that understudy wrote the front unnoticed. Pages from before 10 September carry no marker of which model drafted them; this sentence is the marker.

The press prints on a timer, about every half hour, day and night, and most of those editions are printed with no one reading them first. What the software enforces before printing: a note of the Word that lists no sources does not publish; a citation marker that points at nothing does not publish; a day with only one of its two sides written does not publish; every front story carries the wire items it was built from as its fold; and a guardrail refuses a hard word set beside a named person. What no script checks is whether each sentence of a column is carried by a link in its fold. That is the editor's job, and where it fails, a correction is.

The editor reads the front and the day's pages in a working session, usually daily, sets the rules the machine writes under, feeds it the facts it may use, kills what the sources do not support, and decides what the paper goes after. The Word is written in session, by the editor working with the machine, and staged days ahead. The investigative serials are verified in session against primary sources before a chapter is staged. That verification is a person's work, not a script's; the chapter's fold lists what was checked.

The share images behind every link are drawn by the site's own code from the headline text. The comics and the gallery are drawn over news photographs from articles on the wire; each panel links the article and names the outlet. Those photographs belong to the outlets or their agencies and are loaded from their servers, not copied here; a rights holder's request takes one down the same day. The words in a comic's balloon are the paper's invention over a real photograph and are marked as such.

The site's Bluesky account, @fromeach.com, posts on its own, once an hour: the day's word, the front's top stories, and each serial chapter as it ships. Replies into other accounts' threads are drafted by the machine and sent only when the editor presses Send.

How the wire is weighted

Each gather holds up to one hundred items from left outlets, thirty from mainstream outlets, and twenty from right outlets, and no single outlet may fill more than its share. That is the paper's declared weighting, and it is a position, not an accident: the right and mainstream headlines are carried as the raw material the paper reads and answers. The Word runs both of its columns every day under one standard, and the two are not weighted at all.

The rules every line is held to

• Sourced or silent. Every factual claim is meant to link to something a reader can open. Where the software can enforce that, it does; where it cannot, the editor does, and a claim that turns out to have no receipt is corrected, not defended.
• Counts, not motives. The paper says what was done, how often, and by whom, on the record. It does not say why someone did it unless they said so themselves.
• Institutions, not individuals, for hard words. A department, a party, a company, a court can be described in the plainest terms the record supports. A named person is quoted, counted, and dated. The paper characterizes a named official in two labeled places: the Tuesday ledger of documented threats and documented retreats, every entry dated and sourced on both halves, and the comics, where the balloon is the paper's invention over a real photograph. Neither runs a claim of fact the fold does not hold.
• The same test, both sides. Both columns of the Word run every day under one standard. The rules do not bend for the side the paper agrees with. The results do not come out even; that is a finding about the subjects.
• Never diagnose — quote. Nothing about anyone's body, health, or mind. Hypocrisy with a record behind it prints; a joke about a person prints only if the paper would run the same joke about its own side in the same chair.
• Pronouns are never guessed. Anyone named only by a role takes they/them. A named figure whose pronouns are public record keeps them. Everyone else takes the name or the office on second reference.
• The straight face. No exclamation points, no winks, no "you can't make this up." The headline states the arrangement as a fact and the fold carries the proof.

Corrections

A mistake is marked where it ran, and how it is marked depends on the page. On the Word and in the serials, the wrong line stays on the page struck through, with the correction and the source that settles it beside it, so a reader sees both what ran and what was wrong with it. A front-page story that is corrected is reprinted under its corrected headline at a new address; the old address forwards to the new one, and the reprinted page carries the time it was printed. Nothing is deleted from the record without a forwarding address.

The fixes page is something else, and is not a corrections page. It is the paper's answers to the wire's own headlines: the outlet's line struck through, the paper's line and a source beside it. Those answers are drafted by the model and printed without a person reading them first; the editor can kill any of them, and does.

To report an error, use the contact form, or write to hello@fromeach.com, which reaches the same person. The form takes a short note, so give the page and the source and the editor will follow both. An error is confirmed against the source and marked on the page. A link that opens but does not say what the sentence needed it to say is also an error here, and the fix is the same.

What the paper will not correct: a headline you find unfair whose every clause sits in its fold. The remedy for disagreeing with a sourced claim is the one the paper uses on everyone else: open the sources and show where they are wrong. A disagreement that comes with the source that refutes it is answered on the page it concerns.

Masthead

One editor, one person, who also owns and publishes the site and is not named on it. The address that reaches the editor is hello@fromeach.com. The bylines are not people. Sal, Chip, Ruth, Mort, Lou, Dutch, Mitch, Ambrose, Gus, Klaus, Trudy, Otis and the rest are pen names for columns drafted by the machine and checked by the editor, each a register with a beat, a voice, and a set of rules stricter than the ones on plain copy. Each has a page that says who they are and lists everything filed under their name, and every story page says so at its foot. In the page markup, the author of every piece is fromeach, the paper, never the persona.

Ownership and funding

fromeach.com is owned and published by its editor, a private individual in the United States. It is not owned, funded, or directed by any company, party, campaign, committee, union, foundation, or advocacy group, and it has no investors. It carries no paid advertising; the only ad-shaped boxes on the front are the paper's notices for its own pages. It takes no sponsorship or paid placement, sells nothing, and does not sell or share reader data. Its costs — the server, the domain, the model — are paid by the publisher. Reader accounts are free.

What the site knows about you

No third-party scripts, trackers, or analytics run on any page. The site's own small scripts shrink the header on scroll and mark the reading position; they send nothing anywhere. The typefaces are served from this server. The web server keeps an ordinary access log — address, page, time, browser string — for fifty-two days; the traffic count is made from it by the site's own code, is kept behind the editor's login, and is not shared. Reading the site sets no cookie. An account sets one cookie holding a session identifier and nothing else, and the server keeps a hash of the address the session was opened from. An anonymous vote on a poll or a word is recorded against a hash of the address, so it can be changed and not repeated.

An account's first comment is held until a moderation model has read it. Its brief is narrow — is this advertising, is this a machine — and it leaves slurs and targeted harassment held for a person. After that, comments appear at once, and the model reads them afterwards. Comments are not held to the paper's register; they are held to a bar: no advertising, no bots, no harassment. Every action, the model's included, is logged, and a reported comment is read by the editor.

Talking back

The contact form or hello@fromeach.com. Both reach the editor, who reads them; the paper does not promise a reply to everything, and answers disagreements about a claim on the page the claim is on. A missing outlet, a moved feed, a broken link, a photograph a rights holder wants down, or a persona breaking its own rules are all corrections, and go through the same door.

This page is the one the site's structured data points at for its publishing principles, its corrections policy, its ethics policy, its masthead, its ownership and funding, and its weighting of the wire. If a line on it stops being true, that is a correction too, and the date at the top changes when it is made.