The short answers about BedrockNews — what it is, how the scoring works, where the news comes from, and what it costs.
Every answer links to the page that goes deeper.
BedrockNews is a news publication that takes reporting from licensed sources — The Guardian, arXiv, Al Jazeera, NASA and others — and runs every article through an AI editorial layer that strips sensationalism, tribal framing and emotional manipulation while preserving every fact, then adds structural analysis of who benefits, who pays, and what happens if the pattern continues. The original source is one click away on every story.
GRIN is the framework BedrockNews uses to analyse news events. It asks one question of every event: does it create new value, or move existing value from some people to others? It scores four strengths (Generativity, Resilience, Efficiency, Novelty) and one warning sign (how extractive it is).
BedrockNews's Plumb is a 0–100 score for whether a news event creates value or extracts it. Higher means more generative. Example: the 2026 Physics Nobel for the IceCube neutrino detector scored Generativity 5, Resilience 4, Efficiency 4, Novelty 5, and Extractive 0. Extractive is flipped (0 becomes 5), the five are averaged (4.6) and scaled to 100: Plumb 92. 65 or above with low extraction reads Generative; 35 or below, or a high Extractive score, reads Extractive; most real events land in between, as Mixed. It rates the structure of what happened, not its politics. Research and culture stories get a Plumb too, from their own frameworks (CLAIMS and NOVEL).
BedrockNews applies a published, versioned framework spec to each source article — GRIN for news, CLAIMS for research papers, NOVEL for culture — using an LLM as the production layer. The transform strips the manipulation, preserves every fact, name, number and date from the original, and adds the structural analysis. The framework is the editorial judgment; it is written once, published, and version-stamped on every article rather than reinvented per story.
BedrockNews sources from The Guardian's licensed Open Platform API, which it pays for; arXiv preprints under arXiv's published terms of use and text-and-data-mining policy; NASA's public-domain newsroom; and the public feeds of Al Jazeera, Deutsche Welle, EurekAlert and Hacker News. BedrockNews does not scrape, does not bypass paywalls, and does not bulk-mirror — every article links back to the original.
Yes. BedrockNews is free to read, and it runs no ads, no SEO games and no engagement bait. It is funded out of pocket today and publishes its actual running costs openly, month by month, on its /costs page. Supporter contributions and a possible paid tier in 2027 are the two routes to sustainability.
Partly, and disclosed on every article. BedrockNews uses Claude to apply its editorial frameworks to source journalism, and every piece carries the mode it was written under (GRIN, CLAIMS or NOVEL), the model that produced it, and the framework version it was scored under. The frameworks themselves are authored by BedrockNews's editorial team, not by the model, and the weekly Ledger column is written by hand. There is no human-impersonation layer.
Every one of these answers is the summary of a page that shows its work. The methodology pages carry the full framework specs, the pipeline and licensing commitments are laid out end to end, and the running costs are published as live numbers.
