About this paper
What this is, how stories are chosen, and the rules we hold ourselves to.
What this is
Tunisia News is a daily brief on Tunisia, Europe and geopolitics, published every morning. It is free, carries no advertising, and asks nothing of you: no account, no subscription, no email address.
What we cover
Tunisian politics and institutions; the economy; EU–Tunisia relations; migration; and Maghreb and regional diplomacy. Then geopolitics and Europe, for the context that shapes them.
If a day is thin, the paper is short. We would rather publish four stories than pad the page out to eight.
How we verify
Tunisia's information space is contested, and a great deal of what circulates cannot be checked. These are the rules this paper holds itself to.
- Primary sources first. If the INS, the central bank, the JORT, a ministry or the Presidency published the figure or the text, we read and cite that document, not an article describing it.
- Two independent sources for anything contested. Two outlets running the same agency copy count as one source.
- Social media is for discovery only. A journalist's Facebook post is a lead; it is not published until a citable outlet or a primary document carries it.
- Precise attribution. "Sources say" is not a fact. We name who is claiming what, or we say plainly that the claim is attributed and unconfirmed.
- Every figure names the body that produced it and the period it covers.
- What cannot be confirmed is either left out or published marked as single-sourced. Uncertainty is never laundered into confident prose.
- Corrections are published. If later reporting contradicts something we ran, we say so in that day's edition rather than quietly deleting it.
The daily comparison piece
Once a day we take a single Tunisian story and set four to six named voices side by side (journalists, columnists, economists, union and institutional figures) with what each of them actually said, quoted from their own column or broadcast and linked back to it. Then we name where they agree, where they split, and the question none of them addressed.
Two rules govern it. For a fact, a citable article or primary document is still required. But for someone's opinion, their own signed column or broadcast is the primary source; that is what makes it their position. And quotes are never paraphrased into quotation marks: if the exact words cannot be found, the quote is left out and the position is described instead.
Languages
Every Tunisian story is published in English, French and Tunisian derja written in Arabic script, not Modern Standard Arabic, and not transliteration. Each language has its own address: tunisia-news.com for English, /fr/ for French, /ar/ for derja.
How this paper is made
The research and the writing are done by an AI system (Claude) which runs once every morning against the sources described above. The model used is printed at the foot of every edition. We would rather say that plainly than have you work it out.
That is exactly why the rules above matter more here than they would elsewhere, and why every single story on this site carries a link to the original article or document. You are not asked to trust the paper. You are asked to click through and check it.
Corrections and contact
Corrections and disagreements are welcome and are the fastest way to make this better, particularly from the journalists and researchers whose work is cited here. Reach us on the Tunisia News page on Facebook.