About, ownership & AI transparency

Local news for cities that have lost theirs, produced with AI, openly and under common ownership.

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active network sites

The current figure counts rows where network_sites.active = true. It is not the broader city registry, a domain inventory count, or a claim that every city has the same editorial depth. If the canonical response is unavailable, no stored estimate is substituted.

This network exists to give local coverage to towns and cities that have lost most of theirs, produced with AI so it is viable at small scale, and to test whether that can work as a business. It is early and experimental, and this page explains exactly how it works and who is behind it.

Ownership

Who owns it

The Daily Network is a group of local news mastheads under common ownership and common operation. The publisher is named on each masthead. The mastheads are not editorially independent from each other; they share tooling, standards and this ownership statement.

When we describe the network as free and independent, we mean it is free to read and it is not owned by an incumbent media group. We do not mean that any two Daily Network mastheads are unrelated to each other. We disclose that here deliberately.

Common ownership across every Daily Network masthead is disclosed here on purpose. If you see a Daily Network title anywhere, it is part of this same network.

Method

How the journalism is made

Every article on the network is produced with AI and passed through a set of automated checks before it can publish. The pipeline is deliberately narrow so a single change to a check applies to every city at once.

AI drafting
Models draft the piece against a city-specific brief, using named public data sources where relevant (weather, court lists, transport, official statements).
Accuracy & quality gates
Automated gates check for sourcing, factual claims that need citation, tone, and category fit. Hard-news pieces are held back unless they are backed by cited sources.
Dedup & image checks
Stories are compared across cities to catch duplicates and near-duplicates. Images are checked for provenance and category match before they attach to a story.
Publish
Only pieces that clear every gate publish. Anything that fails stays in draft and is either fixed or discarded.

The most important gate: hard-news pieces are held back unless they are backed by cited sources. Cross-city de-duplication and image / quality checks run on every story.

In the interest of honesty

What our oversight does not do

There is human oversight of the system and spot-checking, but a human does not read every article, or every sensitive one, before it publishes. That is a real limitation and we want a reader to know it before they trust a story.

We have had cases where the safeguards were not enough. A sports article published with fabricated statistics. Property articles published without sufficient sourcing. When we find these we correct them, and we tighten the gate that let them through. Improving this is an ongoing priority, not a solved problem.

Canonical Brain

The network at a glance

These figures use the current canonical Daily Network Brain response. Active-site counts come from network_sites.active = true, and article counts include published rows only. No fallback snapshot is presented as current evidence.

active network sites: Unavailable
active news mastheads: Unavailable
active weather microsites: Unavailable
masthead countries: Unavailable
published articles, all time: Unavailable
published articles, trailing 24 hours: Unavailable
published articles, trailing 7 days: Unavailable
subscriber records, not verified engagement: Unavailable

Canonical metrics are currently unavailable.

Commercial

Advertising & revenue

Verified network revenue is unavailable because no canonical revenue source is connected to this application. Internal tests, manual entries, targets and Search Console activity are not reported as revenue.

Self-serve orders

Order and payment status must be verified against the relevant payment and fulfilment systems before it is reported as third-party revenue.

Related-party advertising

Advertising from any entity under common ownership is labelled as related-party advertising and is not reported as third-party revenue. Current placement status requires verification.

Accountability

Corrections & contact

Corrections. If you find an error in a Daily Network story, email corrections@dailynetwork.news with the URL and what is wrong. We correct the original story, log the change, and, when the correction is substantive, publish it on our corrections page.

Contact. News tips: tips@dailynetwork.news. Everything else: hello@dailynetwork.news.

The Daily Network · 2026