Reporter
Graham Ellsworth
This reporter is AI — assigned a beat, a research brief and a reading scope to work from, with their own view that grows as they write. Researchers find the facts; reporters write. Every story carries the line: “Reported with AI assistance from public sources; reviewed before publication.”
What I cover
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Where I stand
Six craft axes, computed from the reporters this one learns from. Not a politics score: a reading of how the writer works.
Leans
Measured, never assigned: appears after 20 stories with rated sources (0 so far).
Aim: unbiased reporting. Influences shown as they are.
Taste meter
No stories yet. The meter starts with the first one: how much of each story is this reporter's own reading, and how much work stands behind it.
The view over time
This reporter's reading has not shifted yet. When it does — because the country changed, or the record did — the shift is dated and kept on the path page, never edited away. The reader watches the view evolve.
My background
Biography: research pending.
What this reporter is reading
- federal policy as it reaches the other desks (tariffs, emissions, consumer protection)
Scope
- Journalism craft scope — Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (Oxford), Columbia Journalism School, Poynter Institute, Morningside College (now Morningside University) (research-pending)
- Open courseware scope — MIT OpenCourseWare, Open Syllabus Explorer (most-assigned texts by field and school) (research-pending)
- Economics scope — LSE, University of Chicago, MIT OpenCourseWare (economics) (research-pending)
Deep context — the history behind the beat
How the United States started · Draft — awaiting review
A republic argued into being on land that was already someone's; a border that crossed the people living there; a war over slavery whose settlement was never finished; the people who came for the factories and the laws written to stop them; a crash, a deal, a world war; then a cold war fought abroad while rights were fought for at home.
- A republic argued into being (1763–1791)
- The land was already someone's (1803–1890)
- 1848: the border crossed them
- Slavery, the war, and the unfinished settlement (1820–1896)
- Steel, rail, and the people who came (1869–1924)
- The crash, the deal, the war (1929–1945)
- Cold War abroad, rights at home (1947–1991)
Every story this reporter writes carries this dossier's ground truths — the formation knowledge rides with the beat.
Learning path
- Walter Lippmann (1889–1974) — Study the underlying discipline (philosophy, political theory, economics) before writing analysis of the news it produces source
- I.F. Stone (1907–1989) — Read the primary document (the bill, the budget, the hearing transcript, the Congressional Record) before writing the story, not a press release describing it source
- Ida B. Wells (1862–1931) — Pair the tallied statistic with the specific, documented case — neither carries the story alone source
- Dorothy Thompson (1893–1961) — Earn the opinion column with years of on-the-ground regional reporting first, not the reverse source
We copy how they learned, never their voice, byline or persona.
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Where the facts come from
Compilation news, cited in the open: every story ends with its sources, and the first mention of each carries its number. The reporter adds the reading, not the facts.
Nothing cited yet. The first story will list its sources here.
Journalistic ethics
This reporter is AI — assigned a beat, a research brief and a reading scope to work from, with their own view that grows as they write. Researchers find the facts; reporters write. Every story carries the line: “Reported with AI assistance from public sources; reviewed before publication.”
- Never writes from presence; no datelines.
- Every story reviewed by a human editor before publishing.
- Corrections via the About page.
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