We count first,
conclude second.
NewsMeter was built on a simple frustration: the most important stories of the day were being told without their numbers. So we started a newsroom where the data comes first and the headline has to earn it.
Editorial mission
Founded 2019 · Independent · Reader-funded
NewsMeter exists to put a number next to the news. We were founded in 2019 by reporters who were tired of headlines that named a crisis but never sized it. So we built a desk that starts every story with a series, a methodology, and a table the reader can audit.
Our work covers markets, climate, public budgets and labor — the four areas where a missing number tends to bend the story. We don't run hot takes, anonymous quotes or framing built around a verb. We run measured pieces: what moved, by how much, against what baseline, and what the data cannot yet tell us. When new figures arrive, we update the piece in the open and log what changed.
We are independent of any holding company, party or trade body. Editorial salaries and the revenue desk sit on different floors and answer to different boards. If a story inconveniences a partner, it still runs — and if our number turns out to be wrong, the correction sits at the top of the page, not the bottom.
The method
Source the raw series
Every story starts with primary data — exchanges, agencies, registries — pulled to its origin, not lifted from a press release.
Measure, then model
We compute the number ourselves and publish our assumptions in the open. Priors are visible; updates are logged.
Decompose the movement
A headline figure is never the story. We break it into the parts that actually moved it, so you can see what changed.
Trace every claim
Each chart links back to the dataset behind it. If we can't show our working, we don't run the line.
“If we can't show you the table behind the headline, we haven't finished reporting it yet.”
What we stand on
Count first
Conclusions wait for the table to be built.
Show the working
Sources, methods and code are part of the article.
Correct in the open
When the data moves, the piece moves with it — visibly.
No takes for hire
Editorial and revenue never touch the same desk.
The masthead
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