How we try to stay honest — and why "unbiased" doesn't mean "no point of view."
UBH is not a news aggregator. We don't sort, rank, or re-link other outlets' stories. We write unbiased headlines — facts, not spin — from source reporting, and every briefing links its sources so you can verify the work yourself.
Why fixed rules? Because the same standard should apply to every outlet, every story, every day. The rules below are the editorial judgment, and every briefing is held to them and reviewed before it is published.
Unbiased doesn't mean having no worldview. Everyone who reports the news makes choices. What makes us different is that our choices are transparent: we show the sources we read, we back claims with real source text, we score bias openly, and we hold every outlet to the exact same standard. No sacred cows.
Every headline you read goes through the same pipeline. Here's what happens behind the scenes.
We pull from outlets across the entire political spectrum — left, center-left, center, center-right, and right. The goal is to read what everyone is reading, not just one tribe.
We group coverage of the same underlying event from different outlets together. That lets us see, side by side, how the same facts get framed differently.
Not everything published is news. A story has to clear a relevance and significance bar before we cover it — we filter out noise, fluff, and pure outrage bait.
We work from what outlets actually published — never invented quotes, never imagined details. If it isn't in a real source, it doesn't go in the story.
When coverage of a story is thin or one-sided, we deliberately go look for more outlets — especially from the side that's under-represented — before we publish.
If a story is only being covered by one side of the spectrum, we flag that imbalance instead of pretending the coverage is balanced when it isn't.
We don't copy, excerpt, or link-sort any outlet. Every story is an unbiased briefing written from what every side reported — the sources are the reporting we draw on, the briefing is the product.
Our headlines describe what actually happened — no fake suspense, no rage-baiting, no "you won't believe." Plain, accurate, and to the point.
We keep the timeline straight: what happened when, what's new versus old, and we don't recycle stale developments as if they just broke.
Every story carries an openly published political bias score from −1 to +1, so you can judge the lean for yourself.
A story isn't finished when it's written. It has to survive a second round of checks before it ever reaches you.
After a story is drafted, a separate pass re-examines it for slant — checking that the summary itself didn't quietly pick a side.
Claims are checked back against the underlying sources. If something can't be verified, it gets softened or cut — not published as fact.
If the source material is broken, empty, or can't be fetched reliably, we hold the story rather than publish something built on bad inputs.
We don't republish the same story twice. An update only goes out when there's a genuine, material change — not cosmetic rewrites.
The rules above apply identically to every outlet and every side. Nobody gets a pass for being on "your team" or ours.
We're honest that no editorial process is a blank slate. Where we apply judgment, it leans toward common-sense, fact-first principles: verifiable claims over vibes, plain language over spin, and respect for the reader's ability to make up their own mind.
That is not a partisan agenda. It's a commitment to method. When we get something wrong, the fix is the same as the standard — show the sources, check the claim, correct the record, and apply it to everyone equally.
