Good News for Humanity
Good news.
Checked twice.
A short letter every Friday with five to seven things that actually got better this week: who did it, where, and the two sources that prove it. Three minutes to read. Nothing cute, nothing vague.
How it is checked
Two sources.
One of them primary.
The same standard as every Journal piece, applied to every item in the letter, by someone other than the person who wrote it.
Two sources per item
Nothing goes in on one report. Every item is checked against at least two independent sources, and we name both under the item.
One of them primary
A government dataset, a published study, a court record, a company filing, a charity's audited report. Not a story about a story.
Specific, or it is cut
A place, a number, a date and a name. If we cannot say who did what, where and by how much, the item does not run. Corrections are logged in public.
A sample issue
What a Friday
looks like.
Three items in the format the letter will use. These are samples written by the studio to show the shape, not real reports. The real letter starts in 2027 with real items and real sources.
Health
A regional health service reports that childhood vaccination coverage reached 95 percent this year, up from 81 percent four years ago, after nurses began visiting homes in the twelve lowest-coverage districts.
Sources: the service's annual report (primary); a national newspaper's report on the programme.
Environment
A river that was declared biologically dead in the 1970s recorded 42 species of fish in this year's survey, the highest count since monitoring began, after thirty years of sewage treatment upgrades.
Sources: the environment agency's survey data (primary); a university ecology group's analysis.
Work
A city's four-day-week trial in its public libraries ended with the same opening hours, 9 percent lower staff sick leave and no drop in visits, and the council voted to make it permanent.
Sources: council meeting minutes and the published evaluation (primary); a local radio report.
Every Friday from 2027
Get the
Friday letter.
One email when the Journal opens, then Good News for Humanity every Friday. Nothing else, and you can leave with one click.