About OwlyTimes
OwlyTimes is an independent news publication founded in 2025. We cover five beats — politics, business and finance, technology and science, health, and sports — and we cover them with one editorial discipline: every story we publish has to add a piece of analysis, context, or investigation that the original report missed.
Why we exist
By the early 2020s, English-language news online had bifurcated. On one side: pure wire-service feeds — fast, factual, but stripped of the analytical layer that helps a reader decide what to think. On the other: opinion writing that rarely tied its arguments back to primary documents or independent reporting.
Our editor-in-chief, James Chen, had spent the prior decade rotating between regional business desks in Chicago and New York. He started OwlyTimes with a small team of editors who shared a frustration with that split — and a conviction that you could ship news fast and add a layer of context, if you built the editorial process around that constraint instead of around volume.
That's the bet OwlyTimes runs on. We file quickly, but every article passes through a section editor before publication, and every article cites the source it draws on. If we can't add something the original report didn't, we don't publish.
Our editorial team
OwlyTimes is run by a section-editor team of five. Each editor owns one or two beats and is responsible for what runs under their byline. Click any name for that editor's full profile.
Reports on markets with a CPA's suspicion and a reporter's notebook. Founded OwlyTimes in 2025.
Covers AI policy and consumer technology. Skeptical of demos, focused on what shipped.
PhD in molecular biology. Edits health and science coverage with attention to methodology and funding.
Covered three election cycles before joining OwlyTimes. Tracks promises against funding.
Writes about sports moments that become culture moments, and the culture moments that become news.
How we work
Our process is intentionally compressed. A section editor identifies a story worth covering, drafts an angle, files a piece, then runs it through our standard pre-publication checks before it goes live. Our full editorial standards page documents the citation, fact-checking, and AI-tool transparency policies we follow.
We use modern tooling — research databases, summarisation aids, and AI drafting tools — the same way most newsrooms now do. But editorial decisions are made by the editor on the byline. AI does not pick which stories run, and every article is reviewed by a human editor before publication.
When we get something wrong, we say so on our corrections page and append a correction note to the article itself. That page is permanent.
What we believe
- •Independence. We do not accept payment to run, kill, or shape a story. Sponsored content, when it appears, is labelled as such.
- •Citation. Every story names the publication, document, or filing it draws on. We don't hide behind "industry sources" or "experts say" without saying who.
- •Specifics over rhetoric. We prefer naming a number, a date, or a person over making a sweeping claim. If the source doesn't supply the detail, we'd rather file a shorter article than pad it.
- •Errors named in public. Corrections live on a public page, are dated, and are linked from every article they affect. Silent edits are reserved for typos.
- •AI as a tool, not as the editor. We use AI for research and drafting. Every article is reviewed by a section editor. AI does not select or assign stories.
Contact us
We read everything. For editorial inquiries, news tips, or corrections, the right inbox below will reach the relevant editor faster than a generic contact form.
- Editorial / news tips: [email protected]
- Corrections: [email protected] — see our corrections policy for what to include.
- Press / partnerships: [email protected]
We respond to corrections requests within 48 hours. Other inquiries: typically within five business days.
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