Pilot · Spring 2027
US Brief for Campus
A free weekly news digest for one campus office, built to show several sides of the week’s biggest public-affairs stories, with every source listed and labeled.
The free pilot
- Free for one semester (spring 2027). No contract, no payment details, no obligation to continue.
- One office per pilot. We are taking a small number of pilot partners so we can give each one real attention.
- No student data. No student accounts or sign-ups. Your office forwards the email or posts it where your students already are, such as a course site or newsletter.
- Your feedback shapes it. We will ask a few short questions mid-semester and at the end.
If you want to continue after the pilot, we will quote a simple annual price for your office before the semester ends.
What the weekly digest includes
- 5 to 7 public-affairs stories from the week, each in a few short, plain paragraphs.
- Several angles on each story. Contested stories show how right-leaning and mainstream or left-leaning outlets framed them, the strongest argument from each side, and what is still unknown.
- An “agreed / disputed” note on each story: the facts no cited source contests, and the claims the sides contest, with who makes them.
- Sourcing you can check. Every source is linked and labeled by outlet group. We label outlets, not stories, and we never give a story a bias score.
- Two neutral discussion questions for a class, seminar or residence-hall conversation.
- Corrections up front. If a past story needed a correction, the next issue says so at the top.
- Nothing else. No ads, no affiliate links, no images, no games, no tracking pixels in the digest.
How it’s made
AI tools draft each story from published reporting and primary documents. A human editor reviews and approves every story and every weekly digest before it goes out. Stories are credited to the US Brief desk. US Brief is a small, independent publication with one human editor, and we say so plainly.
The rules for what we include, what we leave out, how we choose angles, how we label sources and how we correct mistakes are written down in one place: the US Brief Editorial and Moderation Rubric (Campus Edition).
Who it’s for
- Civil-discourse and free-expression centers that run dialogues on contested issues.
- Civics institutes and schools of civic thought looking for a weekly current-events companion to their courses.
- First-year seminar and common-reading programs that want short readings showing multiple, divergent perspectives on public-policy issues.
- Librarians who teach source evaluation and news literacy.
Ask about the pilot
Prefer email? Write to contact@us-brief.com.
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