About our journalism

The Daily Central Coast Newsroom

How we report Central Coast: the people, tools and standards behind every story.

Founder's note

Built by locals, for locals.

The Daily Central Coast was started by Shane Anderson, a Central Coast local who grew tired of watching the towns he loved disappear from the news. The big mastheads had pulled back. Council meetings went uncovered. Court lists went unread. New cafes, new businesses, new community groups — no one was writing about any of it.

So we started writing about it. The Daily Central Coast is independent, local, and small on purpose. We pair careful human editors with modern tools so a small team can do the work of a much larger one — and put Central Coast back on the front page.

Shane Anderson
Founder & Publisher, The Daily Network

AI-assisted journalism

The Daily Central Coast is a small, independent local newsroom that uses generative AI as a drafting and research assistant. AI helps us monitor council agendas, court lists, press releases, official data feeds and licensed wire copy across the Central Coast region, and to produce first drafts of routine reports at speed.

AI does not publish on its own. It does not have an opinion. It does not decide what is news. Those decisions are made by people.

Editorial oversight

Every article on The Daily Central Coast is reviewed by a human editor before it goes live. Editors verify names, dates, quotes and claims against the underlying source material, cut anything we cannot stand behind, and add local context an AI system cannot know. Where we get something wrong, we correct it on the record and note the change at the foot of the story.

Sourcing

We work from primary and reputable secondary sources, including:

  • Official releases and data from local, state and federal government
  • Council meeting papers, minutes and public registers
  • Court lists and judgments published by the courts
  • Bureau of Meteorology, Transport for NSW and other public data feeds
  • Licensed wire copy and clearly attributed reporting from other outlets
  • On-the-record interviews and statements from named spokespeople

Where a story relies on a single source, we say so. Where we have not been able to independently verify a claim, we say so.

Standards and corrections

Our full code of practice, including how we handle accuracy, fairness, conflicts of interest, sponsored content and reader complaints, is set out in our editorial standards.

Contact the newsroom

Story tips, corrections and feedback are welcome. Reach the editor via our about page.