About
What this site is, and what governs it.
Daily Pol publishes new reporting - The Record - under the editorial standards set out here, alongside a closed archive of American political reporting from 2021 and 2022, republished with its provenance intact.
The archive
Between March 2021 and January 2023, dailypol.com published roughly two to three reports a day on American politics, crime, public health and public life. It then stopped, and the domain lapsed.
The site you are reading is that body of work, recovered from public web captures and rebuilt: 1,080 reports, sorted into 13 sections, searchable, with every page carrying a provenance note naming its original address and the date the copy was captured.
It is presented as a record, not as news. Nothing in the archive is current, and nothing in it has been edited - the reporting appears as it was published, for reference. Where the original pages carried photographs, those are not reproduced: they were not the site’s to license.
What the archive is not
The archived reporting predates the standards set out below, and does not meet them. It was aggregated, published anonymously and packaged for clicks. We have kept it because deleting an inconvenient record would be the opposite of what this site now claims to be - but it is evidence of what the site was, not an example of what it publishes.
Archive pages are marked as such and carry their capture provenance. They are indexed, and dated to their original publication rather than to the day we republished them - keeping a record means letting it be found. Only work meeting the standards below is published as Daily Pol reporting.
Editorial standards
Daily Pol records what power says, next to what power does. These are the rules that govern new work, in full and in public:
- 01Claims are paired with recordsA statement by a public figure is never published alone. It runs beside the checkable record - a vote, a filing, a dataset, a transcript - that confirms, contradicts or complicates it. That pairing is the format, not a garnish.
- 02Every factual claim is attributedInline, to a named source a reader can reach. Primary documents outrank coverage of them: we link the bill, not the article about the bill. “Sources say” does not appear on this site.
- 03Headlines state what happenedSubject, verb, fact. No all-caps emphasis, no curiosity gaps, no “shocking” or “you won’t believe”. If a claim needs a number, the number is in the headline.
- 04Loaded vocabulary is quoted, never narratedPartisan epithets appear only inside attributed quotation marks - and the ban runs in both directions. People are named with office and party on first mention.
- 05The subject of criticism gets askedAny piece making negative claims about a named person or company requires a documented request for comment before publication. An unanswered request is reported as exactly that.
- 06Corrections are published, never silentDated, at the top of the corrected piece, describing the original error. Every correction is also listed on one public page.
- 07Every piece carries a named desk, and a named human answers for itA byline here names the desk that produced the piece and the voice rule it was written under - not a member of staff, and we say so where the bylines are listed. The accountable party is the editor of record, who reviews every draft before it publishes.
Who is responsible
Daily Pol is published by Dailypol News LLC, a United States company, which is the operator of this site and the party a legal or rights request should be addressed to.
Every piece is reviewed before release, and the release is recorded on the piece itself. Since 7 September 2026 there are two release paths: reporting that makes a negative claim about a named person, or alleges a crime, is reviewed and approved personally by Eleonora Shaft, editor of record, and cannot publish any other way; standard-tier pieces may be released by a second adversarial machine review - described in full here - and say so on the page, in so many words. Eleonora Shaft is answerable for everything published on either path, and her review - not the desk byline - is where a correction or right-of-reply request lands.
The record of how this has worked, in order. Before the review gate shipped on 4 September 2026 the automation could publish a finished draft without a human step, and 96 of the 156 pieces then live had gone out that way - including six published earlier on 4 September itself. None of those carry an approval record, and we are not going to add one after the fact. From the gate's arrival that day until 7 September 2026, every release required the editor of record personally. Since 7 September 2026 the split above applies. Each piece released through the gate states which path released it, so this paragraph can be checked against the pieces rather than taken on trust.
Pieces published under these standards carry a desk byline. What a desk byline is - and what it is not - is set out in full on who writes Daily Pol, alongside every desk and the voice rule it writes under. See how we work for the process behind a piece, and corrections for the public error log.
Funding
Daily Pol carries no advertising, no sponsored content and no affiliate links, and it collects no payments. The archive’s original operator monetised through native-ad widgets; none of that infrastructure survives here, and none of it will return.
Corrections, right-of-reply requests and press enquiries: [email protected] - see the contact page for what to include. We answer correction requests before anything else.