Editorial standards

United One News aggregates reporting from Indian news outlets. Each outlet gets a left, centre-left, centre, centre-right or right classification. A rating is either approved by our review panel, with written reasons, evidence links and a review date, or, until it has been reviewed, an automated estimate. A bias bar shows the distribution of coverage across those classifications for a given story — a statement about who is covering it, and how much, not a statement about what is true, and not a claim about any outlet's character or intent.

Where an outlet's classification came from the AI model rather than the curated list, we label it "AI-estimated" wherever the outlet's leaning is shown, including on pages built for search engines and AI assistants. An AI-estimated classification carries more uncertainty than a curated one and is exactly the kind of label most likely to need a correction — see "Disputing a classification" below.

A classification is not an accusation. We do not describe an outlet as "biased," and we do not import a US-style left/right political framework into how Indian outlets are described. Where relevant, we aim to disclose an outlet's ownership and funding rather than characterise its editorial intent. The review panel re-examines a classification when it is disputed or an outlet's ownership changes materially, and a reviewed rating shows its reasons, evidence and review date on the outlet's page.

Prakhar Shahi, Publisher & Editor, is responsible for everything United One News publishes.

An automatic system groups articles about the same event. It checks that the headlines agree before grouping, and a story page only counts outlets whose reporting matches the event. Routine items such as horoscopes and daily columns are not treated as news stories.

Each rating shows whether our review panel has approved it. Reviewed ratings list the reasons, the evidence links and the review date; other ratings are marked as automated estimates. The full method is on our rating method page, and any rating can be disputed through the grievance address below.

An outlet may contest its classification via the in-app complaints form, our Corrections page, or grievance@unitedonenews.com. Disputes are the main way a classification gets a fresh look, so please raise one rather than assuming an odd-looking label will be caught automatically.

Story summaries and "AI Insights" are generated by AI models from published headlines and snippets only — never from your personal data. Every AI-generated summary is labelled as such in the app. Summaries are best-effort and may contain errors; use "Report inaccuracy" on any summary to flag one.

Alongside aggregated coverage, registered Reporters publish original stories through the app. Original reports are marked as such and go through the same visibility, takedown, and correction mechanisms as aggregated content.