TO BRIEF EU / methodology
How an AI newspaper is made.
TO BRIEF is a daily EU news digest written by artificial intelligence — this is its production line. We start from today’s RSS feeds by country, keep what local media are actually reporting, and then build the shared European picture.
sources as material
This is our generated editorial image: many country-level source streams enter one sorting machine and leave as a cleaner brief package.
production steps
country readings
language editions
pre-publication human review
Humans design the rules and handle corrections. There is no prospective human review of every article before publication.
Today’s RSS feeds
Sources shown with the article
Public corrections route
No pre-publication human review
The Flow
From 28 local readings to one readable Brief.
First we read today’s RSS feeds by country. Then we keep the important stories, research them, turn them into one clear edition, and translate the final package for readers.
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We read today’s RSS feeds
Each edition starts from RSS feeds. We keep what was published today, tied to country and language, and discard entries that cannot be used.
That means the Brief starts from today’s published material, not from an old archive or a broad crawl of the web.
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We keep each country in the picture
Stories are derived and ranked by country. The strongest candidates from each country move forward so smaller countries are not drowned out by larger ones.
The European Brief does not start with the loudest English-language sources. It starts with separate country readings.
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We look for European weight
After the country readings, we compare candidate stories and keep what matters beyond one local audience.
The goal is a balanced daily read, not simply the loudest headlines.
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We check sources before writing
For each story, we run targeted searches, read available sources, and keep the material that can support the article.
Readers should be able to see where a claim came from, not only the conclusion.
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We build the article package
The final package can include an article, timeline, images, visual stories, and, where available, podcast or per-article audio.
These formats serve the same story, so the Brief can be read, heard, or scanned quickly.
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Translation after the final text
Translations are not made from drafts. They happen at the end, over the final article, metadata, brief, and visual stories.
That keeps language editions tied to the same final material, not to intermediate drafts.
The EU edition structure
tobrief.eu has its own European method.
It starts from European sources and keeps each country’s perspective visible before building the shared daily read.
Country first, Europe second
The system keeps a country-level reading, then decides which stories have European weight.
Translation comes last
Articles, titles, summaries, the brief, and visual stories are translated after the final editorial assembly is complete.
Local language where it matters
Research is not confined to English. The value of the EU product is seeing what the countries themselves are saying.
audit trail
What readers should see.
We are not asking for blind trust. A Brief should show its sources, its limits, and how corrections work.
Sources next to the story
Readers should be able to see which reports and materials supported the article.
Sources are not decoration
Sources show where a claim came from. They do not mean every original report is complete or error-free.
A public correction route
If something is wrong, there should be a clear way to report it and a public trail of the correction.
boundaries
What we do not promise.
Transparency only matters if it includes the boundaries. These are the important ones.
No human pre-publication editor
If something is wrong, it is corrected after publication through reader reports, internal review, or the public corrections log.
A source is not the same as certainty
Sources show where a claim came from. They do not erase source bias, missing information, or errors in the original reporting.
Translation is editorial processing
Translation happens at the end and is reviewed as text, but subtle meaning drift can happen. That is why the original article and source trail remain important.
Read it as an edition with a visible trail.
The Brief should be judged by whether it shows its logic: sources, context, corrections, and a clear line between fact and the final editorial assembly.