Opinion & Analysis EDITOR'S LETTER
From the Editor: Why We Built Cubed News
A general-news publication is a promise about how the world will be explained to you. This is the promise we are making,…
Opinion & Analysis
Independent voices and reasoned argument. Clearly labelled opinion, columns and long reads from Cubed News — arguments grounded in verifiable facts, not sensationalism. Edited by Helena Brandt.
Opinion & Analysis LONG READ
Reading in an Age of Distraction
We read more words than any generation in history and finish fewer of them whole. A reflection on what deep reading gives…
Opinion & Analysis OPINION
The Ethics of Anonymous Sourcing
Granting anonymity is the most consequential favour a newsroom can do a source — and the most easily abused. A defence of…
Opinion & Analysis LONG READ
Why Attention Is the Scarce Resource of the Age
Information became abundant and free; the thing it consumes did not. Understanding attention as the genuinely scarce resource explains more about the…
Opinion & Analysis OPINION
The Value of Primary Sources in a Second-Hand World
Most of what we know, we know at third hand — a summary of a summary of a claim no one traced.…
Opinion & Analysis EDITORIAL
What Editorial Independence Really Requires
Independence is the word every publication claims and few examine. It is not a slogan but a structure — and the test…
Opinion & Analysis LONG READ
On the Limits of Prediction and Forecasting
We are surrounded by confident forecasts and have learned almost nothing about which ones to believe. A case for treating uncertainty as…
Opinion & Analysis EDITORIAL
Why the Collapse of Local Journalism Matters
When a town loses its newspaper, it does not simply lose a product. It loses a form of civic knowledge that nothing…
Opinion & Analysis OPINION
The Case for Slow News in a Real-Time World
The race to be first has quietly become the race to be wrong. A defence of journalism that waits, checks, and explains…