Readers deserve to know how the front page they are looking at gets made. On this site there is no mystery: the process is mechanical, transparent and governed by a small set of editorial rules that we hold ourselves to publicly.
The 15-minute cycle
Around the clock, our ingestion engine polls the public syndication feeds of major international publishers, the BBC, Dawn, Al Jazeera, Arab News and others. Each cycle it looks only for what is genuinely new: every incoming story is checked against our database by its canonical web address, so the same report never appears twice, even when several publishers carry it.
What we publish, and what we deliberately don't
For each new story we record the publisher's own headline, their published summary, the original cover photograph and the exact time of publication. We do not republish full article texts. That is a deliberate boundary, for two reasons. The first is respect: the journalism belongs to the reporters and newsrooms that produced it, and the fair way to aggregate is to credit them and send readers to the source. The second is the reader's interest: a summary tells you whether a story matters to you; the original tells you the full story, from the people who actually reported it.
Attribution as a design principle
Every story page on this site names its publisher twice, credits the image, and carries one large, unmissable button leading to the full report. Aggregators that bury their sources are free-riding on other people's work. We would rather be judged by the opposite standard:
- The source is named before you even open the story.
- The outbound link is the most prominent element on the page.
- Any publisher can have its feed removed with a single email.
Where the humans come in
Automation assembles the index; people set its rules. The feed list is curated by hand, weighted toward publishers with public correction policies and long records of accountability. And alongside the automated index, this Editorials section carries original writing produced for this site, clearly labelled, never machine-scraped, and held to the same standard of sourcing we expect from the outlets we index.
An honest aggregator has one job: get you to good journalism faster than you would have found it yourself.
That is the whole design. If you ever spot a story that is misattributed, miscategorised or out of date, the contact page reaches a human, and corrections are actioned promptly.
