Publication Date/Time

Note: While we do global coverage, our publication's timezone settings are set to Eastern time in the US, which is UTC-4. The current date and time for our publication is below:

Editorial Standards

At The Needle, we used a lightly modified version of AP Style. We are also committed to human writing and paying our contributors for their labor- as a newsroom, we do not and will never use generative AI in the writing process.

Headlines

Going forward, all The Needle headlines for politics or region-based news will have the country name (or US state) as a prefix to the actual headline, unless the headline already includes location. An example:

California- Gavin Newsom vetoes gender education bill in latest anti-trans insult

Whereas, a traditional version of the headline would read:

Gavin Newsom vetoes gender education bill in latest anti-trans insult

This change is to provide location context for our global audience as well as to be more clear and principled in our global focus as a publication.

A counterexample:

No Kings Manhattan: A protest without the politics

This headline has the location clear and center, so we will not preface it with the region/state information.

Datelines

Going forward, we will place location and date information in dateline format preceding the byline where contextually appropriate. Our publication software/system already date tags every article, but we are committed to clarity, trust, and a true global focus.

Take Your Shot

Take your Shot is an action item at the end of every article to get the reader to engage with the topic. The links are not necessarily endorsements of any particular action but rather a clever way of adding additional context for our readers.