# Morning Mosaic

> A daily email that reads several hundred stories from 34 news sources each morning and
> assembles them into one short brief: plain factual language, every outlet's editorial lean labelled beside
> its link, stories ordered by consequence rather than by coverage volume, and a standing
> section for genuine progress. Every claim links back to the original reporting.

Operated by Belstone. First edition sent 30 July 2026. Delivery: email, 6:45am US Eastern,
daily, on any day the source pool is full enough to brief. Price: free. No paid tier exists.

## What is built today
- Daily email brief at 6:45am Eastern from brief@morningmosaic.com
- 34 feeds from 31 publications, read directly from their own sites each morning (the BBC,
  The New York Times and Fox News each contribute two feeds)
- Five-point outlet lean labels (Left, Center-Left, Center, Center-Right, Right) applied
  from a source table PRINTED IN FULL at https://morningmosaic.com/#sources, to publications
  and never to individual stories. Current spread: 3 Left, 9 Center-Left, 12 Center, 3 Center-Right, 7 Right.
- Impact ordering: ranked by how many people a story changes something for
- An across-the-spectrum note on stories where coverage genuinely diverges
- A standing progress section ("Bright Tiles") in every edition
- A licensed news index (Perigon) supplements the feeds with more articles from the SAME
  publications. Anything outside our published table is discarded; leans never come from it.
- Citation validation: a cited URL that was not in that morning's fetched pool is removed
  before sending, and every lean is re-derived from the source table rather than trusted
  from generated text
- A refusal floor: fewer than 50 fresh items means no brief is sent at all
- Typographic email that renders with images disabled, contrast-measured against WCAG AA
  by a test that carries a deliberately failing control case
- Double opt-in signup and one-click unsubscribe (RFC 8058)

## What is NOT built
- No text-message edition. No iPhone or Android app. No web archive of past editions.
- No personalisation of any kind: every subscriber receives the identical brief.
- No licensed wire copy. No third-party bias or factuality data: the licensed news index we
  use (Perigon) does not expose bias data on our key, verified with a positive control.
- No paid tier EXISTS. Its price is settled at $14/month or $120/year and published, but
  every capability under it is unbuilt, so there is no checkout and nothing can be bought.

## Honest limits
- English-language, weighted to United States, United Kingdom, and international English desks.
- Lean labels are our own editorial judgment, published and open to disagreement.
- It summarises and links; it does not report, and it never reproduces article text.
- Citations are checked mechanically. Wording is not: a summary can be flat or miss a nuance.

## Pages
- [Home](https://morningmosaic.com/): what it is, the method, the comparison, pricing
- [Capabilities](https://morningmosaic.com/capabilities): the objective capability list
  with the mechanism behind each claim

## Contact
Reply to any brief.