About The Daily Network

The Daily Network is a family of local news publications, each dedicated to a single city or region. We were founded by Shane Anderson to bring consistent, everyday local coverage - news, weather, and community information - to places that are too often overlooked by larger media organisations. The titles in the Network share common ownership and are produced centrally by one small, technology-led team, rather than by a separate local newsroom in each city. That is our advantage: it lets us cover more communities, more consistently, than a traditional newsroom of our size ever could. We are editorially independent of advertisers, sponsors and outside interests, and our coverage is produced with AI assistance and automation under human oversight.

Our editorial standards

• Accuracy first. We aim to be factual and fair. When we get something wrong, we correct it promptly and transparently.
• Sourcing. Reporting on news events draws on identifiable sources. Coverage of sensitive matters is verified before publication.
• Independence. Our editorial decisions are our own. Where content is sponsored or commercial, it is labelled as such.
• Community focus. We cover the things that matter locally - and we welcome corrections, tips, and feedback from the communities we serve.

How we use AI

Like a growing number of modern newsrooms, we use artificial intelligence to help us produce and organise coverage at the scale local communities deserve. We believe in being open about it.

• AI assists; people are accountable. AI helps our team draft, summarise, and structure content. Editorial responsibility for what we publish rests with us, not with any tool.
• Sensitive coverage gets human review. Reporting that names individuals or touches on courts, crime, health, or other sensitive areas is reviewed by a person before it is published.
• We disclose it. Where AI has materially assisted an article, we say so.
• What AI does not do. We do not publish AI-generated claims about real, identifiable people in sensitive contexts without human verification. Content that cannot be verified is held, not published.

Our use of AI is a tool for doing local journalism more widely - not a substitute for the judgement, accountability, and community connection that good journalism requires.