This publication will run on a simple compact with its readers. Fewer stories than the wires, with deeper records behind every one. Every filing is anchored to primary sources, cross-checked before publication, and snapshotted at the Internet Archive at the moment it appears.
Where there is no record to cite, there will be no story to file. Where the record is partial, we will say so on the page. Where we are wrong, the correction will sit beside the original in the archive, and remain there.
The opening beats are Cyber, Markets, Frontier and Records. The Daily Brief will run mornings. The Long File will run weekly, with documents, timeline and citations attached. The Archive is standing.
The first issue files in the coming weeks. The masthead is open for reservations beside this column. We will write once to confirm, and once more to announce the first filing.