Last updated: 15 November 2026.
The Daily Short is a short-news publication at thedailyshort.com. We bring you the day's important stories from India and around the world, each summarised in about 60 words, so you can stay informed in minutes. The publication is published under the name "The Daily Short". We do not publish individual author bylines on our short summaries, because they are curated summaries of other publishers' reporting rather than original reporting by a named correspondent. You can reach the desk at help@thedailyshort.com.
We publish two kinds of content, and we label them so you can always tell them apart:
We do not claim to have reported, witnessed or verified events ourselves when we have not. A short is a summary of someone else's reporting, and an Original is an explainer built from published material — not field reporting.
Our feed collects headlines from established Indian and international publishers through their public RSS feeds. We choose stories on news value: importance to readers in India and beyond, public interest, and whether the story is something a reader needs to know today. We aim for a balanced feed across India, world, business, technology, sports, entertainment, science and health.
We do not choose stories to favour any political party, company, advertiser or individual, and we do not suppress a story because it is inconvenient to an advertiser or a sponsor. Popularity alone is not a reason to carry a story, and a story that is widely shared but unverified is not carried until a reliable source has reported it.
We rely on established publishers with editorial standards of their own. Every short links to the source it summarises, so you can read the full report, see the original evidence and judge the source for yourself. Where a story is developing and different publishers disagree, we say so rather than presenting one version as settled, and we update the summary as the reporting firms up.
We do not treat social media posts, forwarded messages, rumours or unattributed claims as sources. If a claim rests only on an unverified post, we do not publish it as fact.
Accuracy matters more to us than speed. Before a short is published, we check that the summary is faithful to the source report: the numbers, names, dates and the central claim must match what the source actually said. Headlines are not sensationalised, and a summary does not add detail, opinion or implication that the source does not support.
For Originals, claims are checked against the source material they are based on, and figures such as match scores, official announcements and published statistics are checked against at least one reliable published source before the piece goes out. Where a fact cannot be verified, we leave it out or say that it is unconfirmed.
News moves fast and mistakes still happen. When one does, we correct it openly — see our Corrections Policy.
We are open about this: our summaries and drafts are produced with the help of AI tools, and reviewed by a human editor before publication. AI helps us draft a short summary from a source report, or draft an explainer from published material. It does not decide what is true, what is newsworthy, or what we publish.
AI-generated text is checked against the source before it goes live, and anything the source does not support is removed. We do not publish AI-generated reporting, interviews or quotations that were never said, and we do not present AI-written text as original reporting by a human journalist.
Editorial decisions are made on news value alone. Advertising, sponsorship and commercial partnerships — now or in future — do not influence which stories we carry, how we summarise them, or what our Originals say. Advertisers do not see stories before publication, do not approve content, and cannot pay for favourable coverage. Any paid content, if we ever carry it, will be clearly labelled as advertising or sponsored content and kept separate from editorial content. See our Advertising & Sponsored Content Policy.
We aim to report fairly: we do not distort a source's meaning, take a quotation out of context, or present an allegation as a proven fact. Where a person or organisation is criticised in a story we summarise, the summary reflects the source's reporting, including any response the source records. We avoid language that sensationalises, stereotypes or misleads, and we do not publish content intended to harass, inflame or deceive.
Stories can be translated with one tap into the reader's chosen language. Translation is a reading aid only; the English summary and the linked source remain the reference version.
We do not publish rumours as news, paid promotion dressed up as editorial, or content we know to be false. We do not publish private personal information, and we do not republish another publisher's full article — we summarise it briefly and link to it. Nothing on this site is professional advice — financial, medical, legal or otherwise. Our explainers are general information only.
Questions about this policy, or about how a story was handled: write to help@thedailyshort.com or DM us on Instagram at @thedaily.short. We will update this page when our editorial practices change.