About Us
What RTD JOURNAL is
RTD JOURNAL is an independent general-news publication. We cover the world and we cover it quickly, across business, the economy, entertainment, health, politics, science, sports, technology, and the broad run of world affairs that does not sit neatly in any one of those boxes. The point of the site is simple to state and hard to do well: tell you what happened, say how we know, and leave you better informed than a headline alone would.
We are not a wire service, a press office, or a feed of republished announcements. We read the primary material ourselves, the filing, the transcript, the ruling, the dataset, and we write from that rather than from somebody else’s summary of it. When we cannot get to the primary material, we say so in the story instead of dressing a second-hand account up as first-hand reporting.
What we cover, and what we leave alone
Our beats run across ten sections: business, economy, entertainment, health, news, politics, science, sports, technology, and world. That is a wide field for a small team, so we are deliberate about where we spend the day. We chase the story that a reader can act on or is genuinely trying to understand, and we leave the manufactured outrage and the celebrity non-event to the sites that live on them.
Breaking news is part of what we do, and breaking news is where mistakes are born. Early in an event the facts are thin, the numbers move, and the loudest account is often the wrong one. We would rather be right at nine than first at eight, and when we do publish early we tell you plainly what is confirmed, what is reported by others, and what is still unknown.
How we work
Every story starts with a source you could, in principle, check yourself: a document, a named person on the record, a set of figures with a provenance. We prefer two independent sources for anything contested, and we do not treat a claim as a fact because it trended. How we test claims before publication is set out in our fact-checking policy, and the standards our reporting is held to are in our editorial standards.
We keep news and opinion apart. A report tells you what happened. An analysis or a comment piece, clearly labelled as such, tells you what somebody thinks it means. Blurring the two is how readers stop trusting a masthead, so we do not blur it. Sponsored material, where it appears, is labelled too, and the rules for that live on our advertise page.
Who we are
We are a small independent editorial team, and we do not publish the names of individual staff. That is a deliberate choice rather than an evasion. A small newsroom that covers politics and business attracts pressure, and keeping the byline collective protects the people doing the work without changing who is accountable, which is the publication itself. If you need to reach a specific desk about a specific story, the route is the same for everyone and it is described below.
Being small shapes what we can do. We cannot be everywhere, we do not pretend to be, and we would rather cover a narrower field properly than a wider one badly. Where we rely on an agency report or another outlet’s reporting for something we could not confirm ourselves, we credit them in the story.
Independence and money
RTD JOURNAL is free to read and paid for mainly by advertising. We take no money from a political party, campaign, or government body in exchange for coverage, and an advertiser buying space buys space, not a say in the newsroom. The full account of who owns the site and where the money comes from is on our ownership and funding page, and we keep that page current rather than tidy.
We say this here because independence is easy to claim and only means something if you can see how it is arranged. If a company that advertises with us becomes the subject of a story, the story says so. If we ever take a grant or add affiliate links, we will name it before the money is spent, not in a footnote at the end of the year.
When we get it wrong
We will get things wrong. Everyone who publishes at speed does. What separates a serious newsroom from a careless one is what happens next: whether the error is fixed openly, on the page where it appeared, with a note that says what changed. We do exactly that, and the mechanics are in our corrections policy. We do not quietly rewrite a sentence and pretend the page always read that way.
If you think we have made a mistake, tell us. A flat, specific message, the link and the sentence you are disputing, is worth more to us than any amount of general complaint, and it will be read by a person.
How to reach us
Everything reaches us at support@rtdjournal.com. Tips, corrections, pitches, privacy requests, and advertising enquiries all start at that address, and the fastest way through is to put the purpose at the front of the subject line. The longer version, including how to send something confidentially, is on our contact page.
If a page on this site reads as vague or evasive to you, say so and ask the specific question. Transparency that nobody checks decays into decoration, and the best way to keep ours honest is a reader who actually reads it.
Last updated: August 2026
