WaperHow Waper follows a topic
Every topic on Waper's Explore page is followed the same way: a fixed set of sources, read every day, turned into a short daily brief and a weekly report. Every story links back to where it was reported.
The sources
Each topic follows up to 20 sources. An organization's own channels come first: official blogs, newsrooms, regulators, filings and papers. Specialist media fill in the rest.
Sources are found by researching the topic, and each one is test-read before it is used. A topic's source list is shown on its page.
Sources are checked every time they are read. One that keeps failing is replaced with another source on the same subject.
Waper reads feeds, public pages and official APIs. It keeps a short summary and the link, never the full article; the original stays with its publisher.
Which stories make the daily brief
New items from the sources are collected throughout the day.
Once a day, every new item is scored against the topic's criteria: what the topic covers and what it leaves out. Reprints and several reports of the same event are folded into one story that keeps all of its sources.
Only stories that clear an importance bar make the brief, so a quiet day has a short brief and some days have none. No single source can fill a brief on its own.
When a story continues something reported in the past week, it is marked as a follow-up and links to the earlier story.
The weekly report
Every Monday, the stories of the past week (Monday to Sunday, UTC) become one report:
the week's most important developments, each with what happened, why it matters and its sources;
every other story of the week, grouped by subject, each with its source;
what to watch next, and roughly when it should be known.
Facts, dates and numbers come only from that week's sources. The links are those of the stories themselves.
Languages
Each topic is written in one language. Readers can switch a brief or a report into another language on the page; those versions are marked as translated, and the original is one click away.
Corrections
If something in a brief or a report is wrong, or a source has asked not to be followed, tell us through Help. Any source can be removed on its own.