Void News / Press room
An independent daily news reader that shows the lean and character of every story, transparently, on one shared front page.
The same stories, in the same order, for every reader. This page is for journalists, editors, and researchers. The method is documented and the reasoning behind every score is shown. Ask us anything.
01 At a glance
Fast facts
02 For the record
Boilerplate
Approved language for editors and reporters. Copy it as written.
Short
Void News is an independent daily news reader that shows the political lean and editorial character of every story. It gathers reporting from 1,061 sources across 158 countries into one shared edition of 20 stories, ranked once a day, the same for every reader.
Long
Void News is an independent daily news reader. Each day it gathers reporting from more than a thousand outlets across 158 countries, groups the coverage of each event together, and scores every story on six axes: political lean, sensationalism, opinion versus reporting, factual rigor, framing, and how an outlet has covered a subject over time. Every score is produced by a documented, transparent method and carries a written explanation, so a reader sees not only where a story sits but why.
There are no accounts, no trackers, and no personalized feed. The twenty most important stories are ranked once a day, in the same order for everyone, on the principle that a shared set of facts matters more than an engaging one. Void News is an independent product of Void, with no outside investors, published at news.voidvision.org.
03 Verified and quotable
What you can cite
These are the plain facts about how Void News works. Every one is documented, and most are visible in the product itself.
- A political-lean and editorial-character read on every story, with the reasoning shown in the app for each score.
- Six axes per story: political lean, sensationalism, opinion versus reporting, factual rigor, framing, and how an outlet has covered a subject over time.
- A published source roster of 1,061 outlets across three credibility tiers and 158 countries. See /sources.
- One shared edition of 20 stories, ranked once a day in the same order for every reader. No accounts, no personalization.
- The full methodology, including which signals each axis reads. See /sources.
04 The method, plainly
How the bias read works
This is the part journalists ask about, so here it is plainly. Void News reads every story on six axes of bias by a documented, transparent method. The reasoning behind every score is shown in the app, and the same story always scores the same way. The full methodology is published at /sources.
Political lean
Left to right placement, weighing the outlet’s track record and the article’s own language.
Sensationalism
Measured, or reaching for the reader’s pulse. Read from the words.
Opinion vs reporting
Whether the piece is arguing a case or laying out events.
Factual rigor
Sourcing, attribution, and hedging. The marks of careful reporting.
Framing
Which facts are foregrounded, and which are left in the margins.
Coverage over time
How an outlet tends to cover a given subject, not just today.
05 Listen
Programmes
Void News publishes three audio programmes. Each is a podcast feed that any app can subscribe to, and each plays on its own section of the site. All three are read by synthetic voices from scripts the pipeline writes and checks; the addresses are listed on /audio.
On Air
The day's top stories read for the ear by three voices, then the editorial, in under fifteen minutes. Every story scored on six axes.
https://news.voidvision.org/podcast-world.xml
The Argument
The audio edition of Weekly. The week's cover story, then the two columnists who disagree about it, reading their own published words.
https://news.voidvision.org/podcast-weekly.xml
History
What happened, who said what at the time, and how the accounts still differ. Read from the written record, every claim sourced.
https://news.voidvision.org/podcast-history.xml
06 Ground rules
Working with the press
- You see what every reader sees. We do not build custom or personalized feeds for demos.
- There is no private user data to request, because we do not collect any.
- Methodology questions get a real answer. The scoring is documented, and we will walk you through it.
07 Independence
The organization
Void News is an independent product of Void, the parent brand. There are no outside investors and no advertising. It answers to readers, not shareholders, and is built around a single rule: the same stories, in the same order, for everyone.
08 Download
Brand assets
Logos are vector SVG. Use the color version on light grounds and the reversed (white) version on dark or photographic grounds. Do not recolor the bias spectrum. History and Weekly are sections of Void News; their nameplates are set in the same lockup and are not separate brands.
- Void News logo, horizontal (color)SVG
- Void News logo, horizontal (reversed)SVG
- Void News mark, Sigil icon (color)SVG
- Void News mark, Sigil icon (reversed)SVG
- Animated Sigil (bias-sweep)SVG
- History section nameplate, horizontal (color)SVG
- History section nameplate, horizontal (reversed)SVG
- Weekly section nameplate, horizontal (color)SVG
- Weekly section nameplate, horizontal (reversed)SVG
- Podcast cover, On Air (3000 × 3000)JPG
- Podcast cover, The Argument (3000 × 3000)JPG
- Podcast cover, History (3000 × 3000)JPG
- Color reference, all palettes (hex)MD
- Social share card, Open Graph (1200 × 630)PNG
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Reference pages
10 Get in touch