What this is
A one-minute US news brief, twice a day, built for people who want to know what happened without sitting through a panel show.
Who we are
US Daily Brief is a small, independent news channel. We're not a newsroom of hundreds and we're not pretending to be. It's a short-format operation: we read the reporting, check the primary documents, and write the version we'd want if we only had a minute.
Everything we publish lives on our YouTube channel, @USDailyBriefShorts.
The format
Two briefs a day — one in the morning, one at night — and each one runs under 60 seconds. Most land around 50. A brief gives you what happened, the number or ruling or date that makes it concrete, and what to watch next. Then it stops.
- One story per brief. No roundups of things you didn't ask about.
- Plain language. If a term needs a definition, we define it in one line.
- Every brief ends with a question, because the comments are usually smarter than the takes.
Sourcing standard
Before a fact goes into a script, it gets confirmed against at least two trusted news outlets — the Associated Press, Reuters, CNBC, Politico and the Washington Post among them — and wherever possible against the underlying document: the court filing, the Fed statement, the company release, the agency notice.
Numbers are reported as reported, with the source and the date attached. If two outlets disagree on a figure, we say so on screen rather than picking the one that sounds better. Sources for each brief are listed in the video description so you can go read them yourself.
We don't publish anything we couldn't defend by pointing at a document or a named outlet's reporting.
Photos and credit
Visuals come from Wikimedia Commons, and only from images that are public domain or Creative Commons licensed. Official portraits, government photography and freely licensed news pictures, credited on screen and in the description.
We don't use network footage, we don't use wire-service photos like Getty, AP or Reuters images, and we don't generate photos with AI. If we can't find a properly licensed image, we use a graphic instead.
Our line
US Daily Brief has no partisan line. We don't endorse candidates, parties or campaigns. We don't tell you what to think about a bill or a ruling. We report what happened, who did it, and what the rules say — and we try hard to write it the same way regardless of which party is on the receiving end.
That means some briefs will annoy one side and some will annoy the other. That's the point of doing it this way. If a brief reads like cheerleading for anyone, it's a mistake, and we want to hear about it.
Corrections
News moves and we're fast, so sometimes we get something wrong or a detail gets overtaken. When that happens we correct it — in the video description, in a pinned comment, or in a follow-up brief if the error was material. We don't quietly delete and repost.
The best way to flag a correction is on the channel itself: comment on the brief or use the contact details on our YouTube channel's About page.