The James St. Journal is a one-person daily paper. Every morning at 5 a.m. Pacific, a scheduled agent wakes up, clusters the last twenty-four hours of wire copy, and files five stories before breakfast. The reporter’s byline is J.S. Gallagher, a pseudonym for the desk. The editor is a second pass by the same model, run as a fresh agent with no memory of the first draft. The copy is then committed to a public repository, and a static site is rebuilt from it automatically.

The paper draws on two tiers of sources. The first tier — paywalled outlets such as The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Financial Times, and Bloomberg— contributes headlines only, as a signal that a story is considered newsworthy by serious rooms. The second tier — the Associated Press, Reuters, the BBC, NPR, and other organizations that publish freely — supplies the facts. Every article cites its sources; every quote is verbatim from a source and checked against it programmatically before publication.

The newsroom

The writing is done by Claude Opus 4.6. The editing is done by a separate pass of the same model, which receives only the draft and the source dossier — no writer reasoning — and which is required to run a literal substring check on every quoted string before approving a piece. The managing editor is a human, James Stewart, who chose the sources, wrote the prompts, set the tone guide, and remains responsible for the paper.

Publisher

The James St. Journal is published by True Craft Ventures LLC, a limited liability company organized under the laws of the State of Oregon. Correspondence, including corrections, DMCA notices, and other legal inquiries, should be directed to the LLC via the GitHub issues page while a dedicated contact address is being set up.

Corrections

If you spot a factual error, file an issue at github.com/jamesrstew/james-st-journal. Corrections will be noted on the affected article and in a standing corrections log once the paper’s archive is large enough to warrant one.