Ownership & funding

United One News is independently owned and operated by Prakhar Shahi, its publisher and editor. It is based in Kushinagar, Uttar Pradesh, India.

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Story pages are built from the public headlines, snippets and links that Indian news outlets publish in their own feeds. We link every outlet to its original article and do not republish full articles. Where several outlets cover the same event we group them on one page, so you can compare what each reported. A short summary of that coverage is written by AI and is labelled as AI-generated on the page.

Reporters publish under their own names, and each has a public profile. A story marked as an original report is based on our own data, documents or interviews. A story that pulls together other outlets' reporting is credited as spotted by the reporter and links every source it draws on. We do not label a rewrite of other outlets' work as original.

Each outlet is placed on a left, centre or right scale. A label is either approved by our review panel, with its reasons and evidence shown on the outlet's page, or an AI estimate that is marked as such until the panel reviews it. We do not copy ratings from other organisations; the methodology page explains why. Outlets can dispute a label through the process on our editorial standards page. Advertising or any commercial relationship never changes a label.

Summaries of multi-outlet coverage are written by AI and labelled as AI-generated. An original report is drafted with AI assistance and then reviewed, edited and checked against its sources by a named reporter before it is published; each one carries a line saying so and links the sources it used.

If we get something wrong, write to support@unitedonenews.com and we will review and correct it. Formal complaints go to our Grievance Officer, Anil Kumar Shahi, at grievance@unitedonenews.com; we acknowledge within 24 hours and aim to resolve within 15 days. For partnerships and press, write to partnerships@unitedonenews.com.

This page covers United One News' own ownership and funding. Disclosure of individual news outlets' ownership is a feature we're building out — it isn't complete for every outlet yet.