Source test
A brief can publish with two credible public source URLs or one primary or official source. Aggregator-only links, weak rumors, and claims that cannot be pinned down are rejected.
Editorial standards
Drawn.News uses visual briefings to show what happened, why it matters, and what to watch next.
Generation disclosure
Visuals are generated from source-linked public reporting. Drawn.News does not invent human authors, artists, or reporters.
Fact boundary
The image may simplify a real story visually, but the captions and source list must not add facts beyond the linked source material.
Sensitivity rule
The generator skips sexual violence, self-harm, child abuse, private illness, and other stories where visual treatment would be reckless. Dark public events can be covered, but only as sober visual reports: maps, timelines, diagrams, field notes, or document-style briefs. No gore, spectacle, jokes, cute mascots, or victim caricature.
Briefing rule
Every visual brief has to carry the useful middle layer. The reader should leave with the event, stakes, turn, consequence, and the next decision, deadline, cost, risk, or practical question.
Style rule
The art direction changes constantly: maps, cutaways, data briefings, contact sheets, field notes, photorealistic reconstructions, object studies, and illustrated sequences when the story fits. No single house style is allowed to flatten the news.
Visual reporting
The best briefs turn abstract news into visible objects: maps, hazards, documents, rooms, numbers, timelines, decision points, and remaining risk. If the visual layer only adds mood, it goes back for repair.
Correction rule
If a source link breaks or a story is materially wrong, the manifest entry can be marked failed or corrected. Bad records are not silently rewritten into clean history.