About The Daily Canberra

The Daily Canberra exists to give Canberra a proper local paper again, one that turns up every day, follows the council meeting, the court list, the new development and the weekend fixture, and writes it up plainly for the people who live here. We are editorially independent and we answer to our readers.

Who is behind The Daily Canberra

Shane Anderson is the Founder and Editor. A named, accountable person sets our editorial policy, decides what we cover, reviews sensitive reporting and owns every correction, the buck stops with a human. The Daily Canberra shares common ownership as part of the Daily Network and is produced centrally by one small, technology-led team rather than a separate newsroom in each city, so we are open that the publisher is not necessarily a local resident of Canberra. The Network is independent of any large media group, political party or institutional investor. For full detail on who operates and funds this site, see our ownership and funding page.

How we produce our journalism

So one small team can cover Canberra in full, every day, we use AI to help research and draft from named public sources, always under human direction. Every story is grounded in sources you can check, run through automated accuracy and editorial-risk checks before it publishes, and anything sensitive is held for a person to review. We report to the same standards we would expect of any newsroom, we just use good tools to do more of it, faster, for a city that had lost its daily coverage.

Part of The Daily Network, a group of local news sites under common ownership and produced centrally by one small team. We are editorially independent, and our articles are produced with AI assistance and automation under human oversight and our editorial standards.

Articles are bylined honestly to the publication or desk, for example “The Daily Canberra”, never to an invented human author, and we do not use fake personas or fabricated bios. For a full explanation of how we use AI, what is automated and what a human controls, see our editorial standards page.

Corrections

We are a new kind of newsroom and we will not get everything right, so we correct errors quickly and in the open. When we update a piece we note the change on the article so the correction is on the record. If you spot something wrong, tell us at corrections@dailynetwork.news or through our corrections and complaints page, and we will look at it.

Contact

News tips, corrections and general enquiries: contact page. We read everything readers send, it is how a local paper stays local.