How This Was News works
- Every day, we check the top stories on the home pages of major news sites.
- A human editor picks one lead story and filters out non-event content (live blogs, think pieces, lists, reviews).
- We save that day as a shareable page: one lead story, a short summary, and links to other major headlines from that date.
The news is a firehose. Memory is a trickle.
Yesterday’s “major story” is gone from our feeds by lunchtime today. This Was News is a slow, human-curated snapshot of what actually led the news — so you can see, in one place, what the world thought was important on any given day.