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Every piece, on its way to January.

One column per stage. A card moves right only when the step before it is signed: fee agreed, draft in, edit done, every claim line checked by a second person. The first edition is January 2027, so the last column is empty, and it says so.

14 in motion2 in fact-check0 published · first edition January 2027
A production board with three columns of cards, a star pinned to the corner and a pencil
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Ideas
One-line pitches: what, why now, who it serves
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Commissioned
Fee agreed in writing before a word is written
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Drafting
Writer has the brief and the claim-line habit
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Edit
Structure and voice, one editor
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Fact-check
Every claim line checked by a second person
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Scheduled
Date, slot and corrections contact set
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Published
First edition January 2027

The board

Fourteen cards, seven columns.

Working titles, not headlines. Writers appear by role: commissioned writers are paid per piece, fees agreed before commissioning; the desk is the house. Every card names its checker before it can leave fact-check.

Show

The board is wider than the screen: it scrolls sideways, or step through the columns

Columns 1–4 of 7

Ideas

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ExplainersExplainer

Why the metric system won almost everywhere

WriterNot yet assignedDuePitch review Nov 12Checker—
WorldExplainer

Who owns the Nile?

WriterNot yet assignedDuePitch review Nov 12Checker—
Magazine · CultureEssay

A week in a lighthouse

WriterPitched by a freelance writerDueReply by Nov 10Checker—
ExplainersExplainer

What a central bank actually does

WriterDeskDuePitch review Nov 12Checker—

To enter: a one-line pitch, why now, who it serves. Nobody writes yet.

Commissioned

3
ExplainersExplainer

How a vaccine is tested, step by step

WriterCommissioned writerDueDraft Dec 1CheckerSecond reader to be named
Magazine · HistoryHistory

The printing press and the price of a book

WriterCommissioned writerDueDraft Dec 4CheckerSecond reader to be named
RegionsEditor's note

What the desk means by "Regions"

WriterDeskDueDraft Nov 20CheckerEditor

To enter: fee agreed in writing, paid per piece. The brief names the claim-line habit.

Drafting

2
ExplainersExplainer

Why cities get hotter than the countryside

WriterCommissioned writerDueDraft Nov 18CheckerSecond reader to be named
Magazine · CultureEssay

The person who reads the water meter

WriterCommissioned writerDueDraft Nov 24CheckerEditor

To enter: the writer has the brief. Every sentence with a number, a date, a name or a cause gets a source line as it is written.

Edit

1
ExplainersExplainer

How rain is measured

WriterCommissioned writerDueEdit pass Nov 9CheckerSecond reader to be named

To enter: a finished draft. One editor, one pass: structure, voice, length. Facts are marked, not touched.

Fact-check

2
ExplainersDue today

How the UN Security Council votes

WriterCommissioned writerDueSecond read Nov 6CheckerEditor
9 of 14 claim lines checked
Magazine · HistorySign-off today

What the Suez Canal changed

WriterCommissioned writerDueSign-off Nov 6CheckerSecond reader
21 of 22 claim lines checked · line 7 in the approvals queue

To leave: a second person has checked every claim line against its source and signed. checked: true only then.

Scheduled

2
Front pageEditor's note

What the Newsroom will cover, and how

WriterEditorSlotJanuary 2027 · Edition 1CheckerSecond reader
Progress & SolutionsProgress

The Friday letter: how Progress & Solutions works

WriterEditorSlotJanuary 2027 · first FridayCheckerSecond reader

To enter: date, slot and the corrections contact are set. The piece carries its sources and its label.

Published

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Nothing yet. The first published piece appears here in January 2027, with its sources listed and a link to the corrections log. No fake headlines before then.

To enter: live, with sources on the piece and the corrections link. Corrections are logged publicly within one working day.

How the board works

A card moves right when the step before it is signed.

Seven gates, one person responsible at each. The software is Samia bot: it moves cards, reminds people and counts claim lines. It never writes a word that goes on the shelf.

  1. Ideas

    A one-line pitch: what it is, why now, who it serves. Pitches are read on Thursdays. A yes means a fee conversation; a no comes with a sentence of why.

  2. Commissioned

    Paid per piece, the fee agreed in writing before a word is written. The brief names the length, the label (Report, Explainer, Analysis, Progress, Essay) and the claim-line habit.

  3. Drafting

    Every sentence with a number, a date, a name or a cause gets a source line as it is written. No current events, no statistics the writer cannot source, no quotes from named living people.

  4. Edit

    One editor, one pass: structure, voice, length. Facts are marked for the next column, not fixed here, so the trail stays clean.

  5. Fact-check

    A second person checks every claim line against its source and signs. checked: true only when they do; otherwise it stays false and the card stays put.

  6. Scheduled

    Date, slot, label and the corrections contact are set. The front page lists the piece with its sources, never before.

  7. Published

    Live, with sources on the piece and a link to the public corrections log. A correction is made on the piece and logged within one working day.

Desks

Five desks, one standard.

What each desk publishes and the line it will not cross. The public version of these rules lives on the Newsroom's standards page; the Magazine's writers' page carries the fee language.

World

World

Report · Explainer · Analysis. Only facts we are certain of, each with a named source. No current events before the desk can verify them.

Explainers

Explainers

Evergreen, widely documented, checked twice. If a number cannot be sourced, it is cut, not softened.

Progress

Progress & Solutions

What worked, where, and the evidence. The Friday letter lives here from January 2027.

Regions

Regions

Places, not capitals. Reporting with a named source for every claim, and an honest empty state until there is one.

Magazine

Magazine

Essay · History · Culture · Science. Long-form, paid per piece, fees agreed before commissioning. Same claim lines, same second reader. Issue 01, January 2027.

The public standards

Sourcing, verification, the corrections log, how pieces are labelled and how funding is disclosed, as readers see it.

Newsroom standards ↗

Pitching the desk? The public page is news.samia.studio/pitch; for the Magazine, magazine.samia.studio/write. Both say the same thing about money: paid per piece, rates agreed before commissioning.

Staff

Sign in with Cloudflare Access once the domain is live.

A one-time code to your staff email, the same way clients reach their dashboard. Until then the board shows sample cards, clearly labelled. Something wrong on this page? Write to the desk.

[email protected]Pitches, drafts, claim lines, the board [email protected]A mistake in anything we published, answered within one working day [email protected]Anything about the house or the workspace
Every card on this board is sample data for building the workspace; writers and checkers appear by role. Staff sign in with Cloudflare Access once the domain is live.The Newsroom · Samia Studios