About US In News

US In News covers American news, places, and reviews. It is independently owned, self-funded, and run by one person with a named masthead. This page explains what the site is and how it is put together.

What we publish

Three things.

News synthesis. Stories compiled from transcripts of identified broadcasts — ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox, Bloomberg and comparable outlets. The value is in the synthesis: what several broadcasts together establish, where they diverge, and what a development implies that no single bulletin said. Each story names the outlets it was built from.

Destination guides. We do not currently publish destination guides. If we do, they will be written from primary sources only — the National Park Service, state park systems, official tourism boards, and the operating organisation's own pages — and each will carry the date its details were verified and a link to the official source, because hours and fees change and a stale guide is a wrong guide.

Review-based reporting. Coverage built on what the public record and published reviews actually show about a place or a service, rather than on marketing copy.

The editor

Chris Simpson is the publisher and editor-in-chief. He also runs Pensacola SEO Company and has spent his career in search and local-media analysis, including original multi-market Google Business Profile ranking research.

He is responsible for editorial standards, the corrections policy, and final accountability for everything published here. There is no board and no editorial committee. If something on this site is wrong, one named person answers for it.

The desks

Reporting is published under six desk identities: the World Desk (international affairs, conflict, diplomacy), the Tech Desk, the Business Desk, the Science Desk, the Politics Desk, and the Newsroom Desk, which handles general news, entertainment, sport, and lifestyle.

These are desks, not people. Each one is an editorial beat with a defined scope and a consistent method — it is not a pen name for an individual human reporter, and we do not give them invented biographies or photographs. A byline on this site tells you which beat produced the story and which standards it was held to. It does not assert that a particular journalist wrote it.

We are explicit about this because the alternative is a lie that is easy to tell and common on the web.

How a story is made

A story is compiled from source transcripts or primary pages. Then an independent verification pass checks every factual claim against that same source material. Claims that cannot be verified are removed, not hedged. Where outlets disagree on a figure, the disagreement is reported rather than resolved silently. Quotations are verbatim, and attribution is by name — never "reports say."

The pipeline is automated, with editorial oversight from the editor-in-chief. We state that openly. Our editorial standards page describes the process in full, including what gets a draft rejected.

Images and video

Photographs come from Wikimedia Commons and pass a licence and author gate: an image with an unknown licence or unknown author is rejected outright. Every photograph renders its credit line, because the licences we publish under require attribution and because a reader should be able to see where a picture came from.

Each article has an accompanying video generated from the article's own text — its headline, subheadings, and paragraphs. The video contains nothing the article does not say. It is not footage, and we do not present it as footage.

Independence

US In News has no outside investors, no parent company, no political affiliation, and currently no revenue. It carries no advertising and has no ad partners. The full picture is on our ownership and funding page.

Get in touch

Corrections go to [email protected]. Everything else, including editorial complaints, reaches the editor at [email protected]. Our contact page lists every address and what each is for.