American Press Report is a reader-funded policy and economy desk. The founding editors worked at wire services and regional dailies, and the style of reporting here is meant to feel familiar to readers of those outlets: dated, bylined, and built from primary sources.
Three categories cover most of what we publish. Policy pieces are translations of federal and state actions into plain language, with links to the underlying bill, rule, or filing. Economy pieces lean on public data — labor, prices, housing — and we try to name the series and the cut of the data we used. Regions is a deliberate counterweight to coastal-default reporting; we pay freelancers in the Midwest and South to cover stories we can't cover from our desks.
Our sourcing standard is simple. If a claim is in a piece, we name the source in the same paragraph, or link to it, or both. We do not print single-source stories without flagging that it is a single-source story. We do not grant anonymity casually — only when the reporter can explain, to the editor, why naming the source would cause the source specific harm.
Corrections are public. If something in a piece turns out to be wrong, we add a dated correction to the bottom and re-timestamp the URL. We do not silently edit. A visible correction history is a stronger signal than a polished story.
We do not run unsigned op-eds. We do run signed opinion pieces from writers with a disclosed relevant background, and the author block says what that background is. Everything else is news reporting.
We do not sell email addresses, we do not run a newsletter with cross-promoted partners, and we do not auto-play video. Readers who want to support the work can do it directly through the contact page. Readers who want to pitch a story or a correction can use the same address.
This is our founding note. Future posts will look like regular reporting — one claim, the evidence for it, and a plain explanation of why it matters. Thanks for reading.