About Article Daily
A Brooklyn newsroom, one issue a day, since 2014.
Article Daily was founded in a converted pencil factory on Wythe Avenue in November 2014 with a single promise: publish one carefully edited issue a day, every day, and never publish a story we wouldn't print in a Sunday paper. Eleven years and more than 4,000 daily issues later, that promise still runs the newsroom.
The Wythe Avenue newsroom, photographed in October 2024. Forty-two editors work across fourteen countries, but the daily issue is still laid out here each evening.
Editorial Code
The rules every issue is held to.
A reader once wrote in to ask how we decide what makes the front page. The honest answer is that we wrote the answer down in 2014 and have reread it every weekday morning since. These are the seven rules that gate every line we publish.
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One issue. One day. Every day.
We publish a single daily edition at 6:00 a.m. Eastern, seven days a week, three hundred and sixty-five days a year. We have missed zero issues since the first one rolled off the press in November 2014. There is no infinite feed and there never will be — the constraint is the product.
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100% human-edited.
Every article is read, sourced, and signed off by a named editor before it is published. No article has ever been written, drafted, or summarized by an artificial intelligence system, and our masthead policy explicitly forbids it. The byline means a person.
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An ad-light reading experience.
The average article on Article Daily carries fewer than two advertisements, against an industry average of eleven. Our revenue comes primarily from reader subscriptions, which means our incentives point toward trust, not clicks. The page should feel like a paper, not a billboard.
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Read it in under five minutes.
The morning issue is deliberately sized for a commute or a first cup of coffee. Our editors cut, not pad. If a story needs ten minutes we send it to the weekend edition; if it can be told in a paragraph, it gets a paragraph and a link to the primary source.
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Two sources, one quote.
Every factual claim of consequence is corroborated by at least two independent sources before publication, and every direct quotation is attributed on the record. We do not run anonymous quotes in news copy except in the narrow circumstances an editor signs off in writing.
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Corrections in daylight.
When we get something wrong, the corrected version is dated, footnoted at the foot of the article, and emailed to every subscriber who opened the original. We do not silently rewrite history. The corrected version is the version we stand behind.
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Independence, on the record.
Article Daily is owned by Article Daily Media, Inc., a privately held company headquartered in Brooklyn. We do not accept paid content, sponsored editorial, or undisclosed advertising of any kind. Our masthead, our funding, and our conflicts policy are published in full at the foot of every issue.
From the Newsroom
Meet one of the 42 editors behind your daily issue.
Forty-two editors. Fourteen countries. One issue, every morning.
Miriam Castellanos
Lead Editor, Americas Desk · 9 years at Article Daily
Miriam joined Article Daily in 2016 from a metropolitan daily in São Paulo and now runs the Americas desk from our Brooklyn newsroom, where she commissions the lead story each evening and signs off on the front page at 5:45 a.m. Eastern. Before journalism she trained as a violinist, which she says is the only other job that has ever taught her how to listen for the wrong note.
She edits the long-form weekend essays in addition to her weekday duties and has personally shepherded more than nine hundred issues of Article Daily to press. She is the editor most likely to send a draft back with the note, in red pencil: "This is a paragraph with a sentence in it. Tell me the sentence."
- DeskAmericas
- Joined2016
- Issues signed off900+
- Based inBrooklyn, NY
By the Numbers
Eleven years, 380,000 subscribers, one issue a day.
These are the figures we publish in our annual masthead report, audited each January and unchanged since we started counting.
of continuous daily publication since the first issue rolled off the press in Brooklyn in November 2014. Zero missed issues.
unique readers across 142 countries as of the Q4 2024 readership audit, verified by an independent measurement partner.
readers who wake up to the Daily Briefing email every morning — the largest newsletter audience of any independent daily in the United States.
winner for Best Daily Newsletter (under 500,000 subscribers), awarded by the Online News Association at the annual conference in Philadelphia.
Figures are drawn from the 2024 Article Daily Masthead & Readership Report. Methodology and source documents are available on request.
People ask me why we still publish one issue a day, in 2026, when the rest of the internet has decided to publish everything all the time. The honest answer is that I have tried the other way. I have edited feeds. I have run a continuous site. And what I learned is that a day is a unit of attention — a unit a reader can actually finish. We are not in the business of more. We are in the business of enough, once a day, well told.
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