How we work

What is published here

Tagblick is a news overview, not a reporting newsroom. We are present at none of the events we write about, and we employ neither reporters nor photographers.

Two kinds of text appear. Our own short reports summarise what several independent newsrooms say about the same event; every contributing newsroom is named and linked beneath the report. References show nothing but the headline and a very short extract of somebody else's report; the full piece appears at the original publisher, who is also responsible for it.

How a report comes about

• Collecting. We continuously read the public news channels of a range of European newsrooms — headlines and short extracts, not their full texts.
• Corroborating. When several independent houses report the same thing, we treat the event as established. What stands in only one place, we do not write up.
• Writing. From the corroborated material, a short report of our own is written with the help of AI, in the language of the edition.
• Checking. Automated checks run before publication: whether the report is written in the language of its edition, whether it touches legally sensitive categories, and whether it has enough substance at all. What fails them does not appear.
• Answering for it. Every report of ours is the responsibility of the person named in the legal notice.

What artificial intelligence does here — and what it does not

It writes. The wording of our short reports, and their rendering into the other editions, is produced by machine. That is stated beneath every such report, and it is not a footnote: to conceal it would be to deceive.

It does not report. The model is given the collected material and nothing else, and is instructed to add nothing to it. We have no machine check that enforces this — which is why every report names the newsrooms it came from. So that you can check it yourself.

It does not decide alone. Section, illustration and publication follow rules we set and checks that will also hold a report back.

Pictures

We have no photographers of our own, so every picture on this site comes from an archive — from openly licensed collections, with the creator and the licence printed beneath it. As a rule it therefore does not show the event itself but the place, the person or the context. Where that is so, the picture carries a note saying it.

The note is left off only where a picture genuinely shows the person, the place or the building named in the report.

Seven editions, one method

This service appears in German, English, Dutch, French, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese. The editions are not separate newsrooms: a report is written once and rendered into the other languages. You will therefore find the same story in every edition, connected through the language chooser.

We also read sources in languages for which we run no edition of our own. Those appear solely as a named and linked source beneath the report concerned.

Our bylines

No invented name appears beneath our texts. There are four bylines, and each says what it means:

• Tagblick Newsdesk — AI-assisted short reports from the corroborated material of several newsrooms.
• Tagblick Redaktion — our own pieces: context, explainers, commentary.
• Tagblick Tech-Redaktion — our own pieces on digital technology, artificial intelligence and privacy.
• Tagblick Partner-Inhalte — paid pieces, marked as advertising, kept apart from the newsroom and held to the same rules about facts as anything else we publish.

What we do not do

• We do not take over anybody else's full texts or photographs.
• We do not write a report of our own that rests on a single source.
• We do not put an invented author's name under a machine-written text.
• We do not sell editorial coverage. Paid content appears marked, and only marked.

Reporting a mistake

Automation errs differently from a person, but it errs. If something strikes you — a wrong detail, an unsuitable picture, a faulty source credit — write to [email protected]. We correct the report or take it down.

The full provider details and the person responsible under press law are in the legal notice.