About Us

What NEWS ANALYSIS is for

NEWS ANALYSIS is an international general news publication. We cover the events that change how people work, travel, spend, build and live, and we try to explain why those events matter beyond the day they happen. Our readers are spread across many countries and time zones, so we write for someone who may be encountering a story for the first time, without assuming they already follow it closely.

The name is a statement of method. A great deal of daily news consists of restating what an institution announced. We are more interested in the analysis layer that sits on top of that: what the announcement changes, who carries the cost, what has to be true for the claim to hold, and what the reader should watch next. Our tagline, Your World, Our Insights, describes that division of labour.

What we cover

We publish across ten desks: News, Business, Technology, Science, Sports, Lifestyle, Travel, Auto, Entertainment and Gaming. That spread is deliberate. The forces that drive a technology story often surface again in business, and a science result frequently becomes a health or policy story within months. Covering them under one roof lets us follow a development across the boundaries that usually separate it.

We are not a wire service and we do not try to be comprehensive. On any given day, far more happens than we publish. We choose stories where we believe we can add something to what a reader would get from a headline alone.

How we work

Every article on this site begins with the underlying material. Where a story turns on a document, a filing, a study, a transcript or a set of published figures, we go to that source and read it before we write. When we describe what a study found, we mean the study, not a summary of it. When we quote a figure, we have seen where the figure comes from.

We attribute claims to the people and organisations that made them. If a company says its product does something, we write that the company says it. The distinction between what is established and what is asserted is the most important one in a news story, and we try never to blur it.

We link out. If a reader wants to check our work against the original, the route should be obvious and short.

What we are not

We do not publish opinion columns, and we do not run an editorial line on political questions. Our analysis is about consequence and mechanism, not about what a reader should believe. Where a question is genuinely contested among informed people, we would rather set out the disagreement than resolve it artificially.

We do not publish sponsored articles disguised as reporting. Commercial material, if it ever appears, is labelled. Our advertising relationships are described on our Advertise page, and they have no bearing on what we cover.

Corrections and contact

We get things wrong. When we do, we correct the article and say what changed, because a silent edit is worse than the original error. Our approach is set out in full on our Corrections page.

If you have found a mistake, want to raise a concern about coverage, or have information you think we should look at, our Contact page explains how to reach us and what happens after you do.

Standards and transparency

Several pages on this site exist to make our practices checkable rather than merely stated. Our Editorial Standards page describes how stories are chosen, sourced and reviewed. Our Fact Checking page explains what we verify before publication and how. Our Ownership and Funding page sets out who runs this publication and how it pays for itself. Reading those three together will tell you more about how we operate than this page can.

We would rather be judged on those documented practices than on a statement of values. Anyone can claim to be accurate. The useful question is what a publication actually does when it is wrong, when a source is unreliable, or when a commercial interest and a reader interest point in different directions.