Inside the Newsroom
Most articles on this site are researched and drafted by AI under human editorial supervision. This page discloses how that works — and what we choose not to publish.
The editorial promise
We never skip the day's essential stories — Japan results, Group F movement, tournament milestones. On top of that baseline, AI adds what a human desk could not sustain daily: local-language press reading across countries, opponent perspectives, cross-cutting numbers, misconception checks. We do not compete on speed; we compete on next-morning context.
How an article is made
Nothing is one-shot generated. Each piece passes through research, duplicate checks against published work, angle selection, section planning, drafting, a unifying edit, an anti-boilerplate revision pass, fact and source verification, a dry run, and only then publication. Material that cannot be cross-verified across sources stays an internal memo.
Quality gates and empty slots
Every article is scored before publication; anything below the bar (75/100) does not ship. The same applies to the fixed morning slot — on a morning that cannot meet the bar, the slot simply stays empty. A blank space is more honest than filler.
Where the humans are
Editors approve, revise, and reject. Articles auto-published ahead of review carry an internal 'unreviewed' flag until an editor confirms them. Comments run through three layers: AI pre-screening, reader yellow-card reports, and editorial moderation.
Current numbers (auto-tallied)
Figures refresh hourly. 'Unreviewed' counts articles currently live ahead of editor confirmation.
Sources and social media
Sources are allow-listed official and established outlets, linked at the end of each article. We do not scrape or auto-post to X, and we never quote individual social posts.