The Daily Tasmania Newsroom

The Daily Tasmania is an independent local news service for Tasmania. We combine AI-assisted reporting with human editorial oversight to publish timely, sourced journalism every day. This page explains how the newsroom works, who is responsible, and how to reach us.

AI-assisted journalism

Our articles, roundups and guides are drafted by AI systems that synthesise facts from a curated allow-list of public, named sources. The AI does not invent quotes, statistics or events. Every story is built from material we link in the article so you can follow the evidence back to its origin. AI handles the heavy lifting of reading, sorting and drafting at scale; people set the policies it runs under.

Editorial oversight

The publisher sets editorial policy, approves the source allow-list, tunes the guardrails the system runs under, and is publicly accountable for everything we publish. Sensitive categories such as crime, allegations against named individuals, and active legal proceedings are excluded from automated synthesis. Corrections are actioned promptly when readers flag an error.

Sourcing and verification

We draw only from named, publicly available sources: official government releases, court and parliamentary records, established local and national mastheads, and verified organisational communications. Facts are cross-referenced across sources where possible, and every article links the material it draws on. We do not reproduce or rewrite a single source piece, and we attribute anything we cite.

Read more

For the full policy, including how we handle corrections, conflicts of interest, and what is and isn't automated, see our editorial standards. To contact the newsroom or the publisher, visit our about page.

The founder

Built by locals, for locals

The Daily Tasmania was founded in 2026 by Shane Anderson, an Australian publisher and technologist who set out to bring proper daily local news back to cities the national press had stopped covering closely.

Shane built The Daily Network because he believed every Australian city deserved its own paper of record. Nineteen mastheads later, that idea is a working federation of local newsrooms run on shared standards, shared technology, and shared accountability, but with the local edit kept firmly in Tasmania.

"Local news shouldn't be a luxury," Shane says. "If you live here, you should be able to know what is happening in your council, your courts, and your community before lunch. That is the job, and we take it seriously."

Reach Shane and the publisher's office via the about page.