AI & Data Curation Transparency
How Well This Is News is made
Well This Is News uses AI to produce most of what it publishes. You should know exactly how.
What the AI does
- Monitors news outlets across the political spectrum and groups coverage of the same event.
- Drafts each story: the Left, Right and Straight perspectives, the analysis, key takeaways and “Why it matters”.
- Drafts headlines, summaries and image prompts.
What the checks do
Before a story publishes, it passes automated checks we built and keep refining: it must draw on outlets from across the spectrum, it must not repeat an event we have already covered without new information, a missing perspective is shown honestly rather than written for it, and stories about deaths or violence are handled soberly.
What a human does
Editorial Director C. Mayfield sets the editorial rules and checks, chooses the sources, reviews stories after they publish, and corrects errors when they are found or reported. What those reviews find goes back into the rules, so the system improves over time. Some stories get a full human review against primary documents before they publish. Those stories say so.
What we do not claim
- Most stories are reviewed by a person after they publish, not before.
- Most stories summarize other outlets’ reporting. We do not do original reporting on them.
- WTIN’s desk bylines (Politics, Elections, Economics, Foreign Affairs, Climate) are topic labels, not separate teams of journalists.
If a perspective is missing
If we cannot find coverage from one side, we say so. We do not write a perspective that no source published.
Errors
AI drafting makes mistakes. If you find one, email info@wellthisisnews.com. We correct errors and note the correction on the story.