Editorial Standards

Newspectives is an AI-driven platform, but its outputs are shaped by editorial choices — what perspectives to include, what outlets to sample, what tone to permit, what framings to avoid. This page documents those choices.

Founding principles

• Multi-perspective by design. No single regional or ideological lens is treated as the default. Every analysis presents the full roster of available perspectives (or a reader-selected subset) plus a neutral Common Ground summary.
• Source-cited. Every perspective links to the actual media articles the AI used to ground its analysis. Readers verify against primary sources, not against us.
• Disclosed AI. All content is generated by AI and labelled as such. We do not present AI output as human reporting.
• Comparative, not corrective. The goal is to show how a story is being told across the world. The goal is not to identify a single "correct" version of events.

Source selection per perspective

Each regional perspective samples the outlets that shape mainstream news framing in that region. Representative examples:

• USA: The New York Times, CNN, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post
• UK: BBC, The Guardian, The Times, The Telegraph
• Germany: Deutsche Welle, Der Spiegel, FAZ, Süddeutsche Zeitung
• Russia: RT, TASS, Sputnik (state-influenced, included to surface the narrative)
• China: Global Times, Xinhua, People's Daily (state-influenced, same reason)
• Arab World: Al Jazeera, Al Arabiya, regional Pan-Arab outlets
• Israel: Haaretz, The Jerusalem Post, Times of Israel
• India: Times of India, The Hindu, NDTV, Indian Express
• South Africa: News24, Mail & Guardian, IOL, regional outlets
• Latin America: Folha de S.Paulo, Clarín, El País Americas, La Jornada

Including state-influenced sources for Russia and China is deliberate. The platform's value is in showing readers how a region is framing a story, which requires sampling the outlets that actually shape the framing in that region — not filtering them out because we disagree with them.

The perspectives

The roster is expandable. Readers can choose which perspectives to display per topic, and admins can activate additional regional lenses — up to roughly twenty perspectives are supported per topic. The current default lineup:

Common Ground — a neutral baseline of facts that are uncontested across all the regional readings. The factual anchor.

USA, UK, Germany, Russia, China, India, Israel, Arab World, South Africa, Latin America — regional lenses sampling each region's mainstream and influential outlets.

Humanitarian — focuses strictly on the human cost: civilian impact, refugees, displacement, suffering. Independent of any geopolitical framing.

The Jester / The Exospective — explicitly satirical commentary in the spirit of The Onion or a political cartoon. Clearly labelled as parody on every page where it appears. Not factual reporting.

Configured but not enabled by default: France, Denmark, Turkey, Iran, Japan, North Korea, South Korea, Canada, Australia, Taiwan, the Philippines. These can be activated to expand the roster.

Tone classification

Every perspective is tagged with a tone classification to help readers see framing choices at a glance: Optimistic, Critical, Analytical, Diplomatic, Cautious, Confrontational, Skeptical, Reflective, and others depending on the article. The tone classification is generated by the AI and reflects the rhetorical posture of the analysis — not a quality judgment.

Language rules the AI follows

The prompts that drive every analysis include explicit rules about what language to avoid:

• No framings that present news as a binary "us vs. them"
• No use of "obviously", "the truth is", or other phrasing that asserts a single correct view
• No corporate platitudes or marketing language
• No sensationalist openers ("breaking news", "shocking")
• Plain language preferred over jargon
• Always more than two perspectives surfaced on contested events

Authorship

Perspective text is authored by Newspectives AI (a system of agents running on Google Gemini, grounded by Google Search). The author byline on every NewsArticle is "Newspectives AI". Editorial oversight, prompt design, source-list curation, and corrections are handled by Hein Kleinveld, founder.

What is not in scope

• Investigative reporting
• Original interviews
• Breaking-news verification
• Predictions or forecasts
• Endorsements of any media outlet, political party, or position

For more on how analyses are produced, see the methodology page. For how errors are handled, see corrections.