About The News Today

One edition a day. Read it, finish it, get on with your life.

What we cover

The News Today is a general daily edition for Australian readers: national affairs, world news, money and household costs, work and study, and explainers that make the machinery behind a story legible. We cover the story that matters today rather than everything that happened today. If an item does not change how a reader thinks, votes, spends or plans, it does not make the edition, no matter how well it would travel on a feed. What we do not do is take other people's journalism apart to show how it was sourced, framed or funded. That method work is our sister masthead News Evaluation's beat, it is a craft of its own, and we send readers there rather than running a thinner version of it here. Our own distinctiveness is simpler and harder to copy: the edition ends. You can reach the bottom of it, know you reached the bottom, and put the phone down.

How we work

We publish one edition each morning and close it each night. Everything in that edition was written to be read as a set, in order, and to end. We do not run an infinite feed, we do not push alerts at readers through the day, and we do not resurface old items dressed as new ones. Reporting is separated from comment and each is labelled. Sources are named wherever naming them is safe and fair, and where we grant anonymity we say why. Anyone criticised in the edition is given a fair chance to respond before we publish, not after. Sponsored or commercial material, if we ever run it, will be marked as such at the top of the item and will never sit inside the edition unlabelled. Nothing reaches the edition without a person reading it in full and putting their own judgement behind it, and the editor answers for the edition as a whole, not only for the items that carry a byline.

Corrections

When we get something wrong we fix it in the open. Corrections are appended to the item, dated, and listed on a standing corrections page, so a reader can see what changed and when. We do not silently rewrite a published item to make an error disappear. If an error is serious enough to have misled readers, the correction runs in the next morning's edition as well as on the item itself. To report an error, write to the editor through our contact page with the item and the specific claim in question, and we will respond.

Who publishes this

The News Today is published by Sukh Sandhu Pty Ltd, ACN 679 292 392, ABN 49 679 292 392, an Australian company based in Melbourne, VIC.