How we work

What the pipeline does

The New Tunisian is written by an automated editorial pipeline built on artificial intelligence — large language models working under a fixed editorial charter. Four times a day it produces one briefing per section, in Arabic and in English. It is built to search current reporting across multiple news sources, select the developments that matter, and compress them into a few dense points. Before anything is published, every briefing must pass deterministic checks: rules of structure and length, and bright-line language rules against incitement, dehumanisation, and citation clutter. A briefing that fails is not published — the previous edition stays up, plainly timestamped. The weather section is the exception: it is built from Open-Meteo forecast data by fixed templates, with no AI system involved, which is why it carries its own label.

What it optimises for

Signal over noise. One briefing per section, refreshed through the day, that a busy reader can absorb in minutes: what changed, why it matters, and what has become possible or dangerous. The writing aims for calm authority and human dignity — no clickbait, no outrage theatre, no filler — in modern formal Arabic with Tunisian conventions and in clear British English, with neither language a translation of the other. The label on every briefing shows the moment it was generated, because a freshness promise should be checkable.

Known limits

Automated writing makes mistakes. A figure, a name, or a sequence of events can come out wrong even when the text reads confidently, and story selection is itself a judgement that can miss or misweigh what mattered. Briefings are replaced at each update rather than archived, so most errors are short-lived by construction. When a section fails its checks, the previous edition remains in place, and any briefing older than a day says so visibly. Read The New Tunisian as a fast, honest orientation layer, and verify any single fact independently before acting on it.

Who stands behind it

The New Tunisian is an independent bilingual briefing service published from London — Arab in belonging, Tunisian in root, global in attention. The machine writes, but the standards it writes under are chosen and maintained by The New Tunisian.