About Straight To The Point News

What we do

Every Straight To The Point News story is a concise, original explanation of an event. It lists the sources it relies on and, where available, links to how other news organizations reported it, so you can see the whole picture and decide for yourself.

• Short and clearThe essential facts and context, without padding. Brevity never means leaving out important caveats.
• Sources you can checkEach story lists the evidence a person checked for it, separately from other outlets’ coverage.
• Compare the coverageHand-picked links to other outlets’ reporting, with a meter showing how those outlets are rated.
• No account, no paywallEverything is free to read, and personalization stays on your device.

How a story is put together

1. Original writing. STTPN writes its own explanations. We link to other publishers rather than copying their articles, photos or video.
2. Checked sources. Every published story lists at least one supporting source that a person checked for that specific story.
3. Related Coverage. Many stories include a short, hand-picked list of other outlets’ reporting so you can compare how the event was covered.
4. Human review. A person confirms the key facts, dates, quotations and source context before anything is published.

Publication ratings

Outlets in Related Coverage show STTPN’s human-approved, publication-level political classification, from Left to Right, or “Unrated”. These labels describe a publication’s overall tendencies, not a particular article, and they are not a measure of accuracy.

Read our Political Rating Methodology or browse every publication we track.

Who runs STTPN

Straight To The Point News is an independent, founder-operated publication. Its founders are responsible for researching, verifying, writing, publishing and correcting stories, and for approving every publication classification.

AI tools may assist with research and drafting, but a person checks key facts, dates, quotations and source context before anything is published, and no AI output is published automatically.

Who we write for

Our first audiences are readers in the United States and Canada. Stories are tagged with the countries they’re most relevant to, which helps with browsing, but every story is readable from anywhere.

Free to read

STTPN is free. There are no reader accounts, subscriptions or paywalls. Readers who want to support the work can do so through the Donate button. The site shows ads from Google AdSense. Ads and any future sponsorship are clearly labeled and never decide what we report, which sources we cite or how publications are classified.

Accuracy and corrections

We aim to be clear about what is confirmed, what is disputed and what is unknown. When we make a material error, we correct it and add a dated note to the story.

Read our Editorial Standards & Corrections policy, or report an error in any story.