About Us
A masthead, not a place
MIND CRON is an independent general-news publication for readers wherever English is read. We publish across ten sections: world news, business, technology, science, sports, entertainment, lifestyle, travel, auto and gaming. None of them is the reason the site exists and none of them is a sideline. The name is a masthead, not a place. There is no home city behind it, no local desk, and no country whose weather, politics or football results are reported by default while everyone else’s are treated as foreign.
That is a deliberate choice rather than an accident of the domain name. A great deal of English-language news is written from one capital and exported. We would rather write as though the reader could be anywhere, because they are. A story about a central bank decision, a rocket launch or a transfer window has to make sense to someone reading it at breakfast on one continent and someone reading it on a late train on another.
Ten sections, weighted evenly
A general newsroom earns its keep by refusing to shrink into a specialist one. World news and business sit next to gaming and travel on our front page, and we do not apologise for the mix. Readers do not live inside a single beat. The person following an election result also wants to know whether a new car is worth the wait and whether last night’s match was as good as the score suggested.
Even weighting has a cost. We cannot cover any one field as deeply as a publication that does nothing else, and we do not pretend to. What we can do is bring the same standards of sourcing and the same discipline about what we do not know to every section, so that a science story and a sports story are checked the same way before they go live.
Who runs it
MIND CRON is made by a small independent editorial team, and it is owned and funded by the person who operates it. There is no media group above us, no investor with a portfolio we would need to step around, and no political interest whose favour we depend on. The editorial decisions are made by the people who do the reporting, and nobody rings the desk to ask for a story to be softened.
We are aware that a lean team can look thin from the outside. We accept that trade because the alternative is a structure where the record can be bent by whoever sits at the top of it. Here there is nobody at the top of it except the people whose names would go on the mistake. How the money works is set out on our ownership and funding page.
How a story makes the list
We ask one question before a story goes on the day’s list: will a reader who acts on this be better off for having read our version rather than the loudest one? That filter pulls us toward stories where there is a document, a dataset, a ruling or a named person to check against, and away from stories that are only a mood with a headline attached.
It also means we skip things. We do not chase every viral claim, we do not rewrite every press release, and we do not publish a story purely because everyone else has. A smaller list of stories we can stand behind is more useful than a longer list we would have to walk back by evening.
When news is breaking
Breaking news is where a publication either earns trust or spends it. When an event is still unfolding, the temptation is to run the biggest version first and reconcile it with the facts later. We do the reverse. A figure we cannot source is not published, however widely it is circulating, and a photograph we cannot date is not used as proof of anything.
A developing story is labelled as developing, each update is timestamped, and what we do not yet know is said in plain words rather than hidden behind a confident verb. The mechanics of that are in our fact-checking policy, and what happens when we still get it wrong is in our corrections policy.
Reporting, analysis and opinion, kept apart
A news report tells you what happened and attributes every claim in it. Analysis explains what it might mean, and it is built on reporting rather than on instinct. Opinion tells you what one writer thinks, and it is labelled so that you are never in doubt about which of the three you are reading. We do not let one borrow the authority of another.
The headline is held to the same standard as the story, because for most readers it is the only part they will ever see. A headline that takes a side the report underneath does not earn is treated as an error, not as marketing. The full set of rules is in our editorial standards.
How the site is paid for
MIND CRON is free to read and is paid for by display advertising, which is the only revenue the site has. We carry no sponsored posts, we sell no links, and we accept no sponsorships. We put this on the about page rather than in a footer because how a publication is funded shapes what it can afford to say, and readers deserve to know that before they decide how much to trust us.
Advertising is served by a network, which means we usually do not know which advertiser bought a given impression. That is inconvenient for selling and useful for everyone else. No advertiser sees a story before it publishes, and a company that appears in a banner here is reported on exactly as it would be otherwise. The rules are on our advertise page.
Who we write for
Our reader is curious, short of time and tired of being sold to. They may not share a nationality, a currency or a time zone with the person reading the same story a minute later, so we spell out context that a local outlet could take for granted and we do not assume that any one country’s politics is the default frame.
We also assume our reader will check us, and we think that is healthy. Where we can show a source, we link to it, so that anyone who wants to go past our summary to the document underneath can do so without asking permission.
Holding us to this
The fastest way to improve this publication is to tell us when it falls short of what this page promises. If a report is wrong, if a headline oversells, if a story reads as advertising, write to support@mindcron.com and say so plainly. Every route to the team is on our contact page.
A page like this is easy to write. The measure of MIND CRON is whether the reporting keeps these promises on an ordinary day, under deadline, across ten sections at once. That is where we ask to be judged.
