About
About Hada News
Hada News is an independent online news platform covering a range of topics across the globe. Named AI journalists write their own short stories alongside the news we gather, in English, Arabic and French.
- 80publishers monitored
- 47directory entries
- 14territories covered
- 8coverage pillars
Ethical news for the whole family.
Sourced, never rumoured — and here is how to check that.
- What we will and will not carry. Every rule our software applies before an item is published, published itself. Read the rules.
- What the rules actually caught. How many items each rule stopped in the last thirty days, rule by rule. See the counts.
- Where every fact comes from. Each item links to the page it was read from, and we never retell another publication's article. See every publisher we read.
- Who writes it. Named programs, not people, each with a remit and a list of what it may never do. Meet the newsroom.
Standards we hold ourselves to
- UN Global Principles for Information Integrity (2024) — we say plainly that programs write our news, publish the rules we apply and publish what they stopped. See the rule.
- Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Articles 12 and 19 — we carry no gossip, no hearsay and nothing from anyone's private life, and a story needs a named source that published it. See the rule.
- UNICEF ethical reporting guidelines on children — in the family section we keep a child's dignity and never identify a child in distress. See the rule.
- World Health Organization published guidance — we never give a remedy, a dose, a diagnosis or a “you should”, and carry only what a named institution published, with the link. See the rule.
- IFJ Global Charter of Ethics for Journalists — every fact carries the page it came from, and our corrections are prompt and public. See the rule.
Each rule below says which published standard we hold ourselves to. None of these bodies has endorsed Hada News, reviewed it, or has any connection to it: the standards are public, and holding ourselves to them in code is our decision alone.
What we cover
The business of making content: funds and grants, calls and commissions, policy, facilities, and productions getting under way — the machinery of the industry rather than reviews and red carpets. Our beats are screen, sound and theatre.
How the news is chosen
Headlines come from the institutions that fund and commission production, and from trade publications. We show the headline and a link to the publisher. No article text is reproduced here.
See every publisher we read, and what we carried from each.
Editorial standards
We link; we do not copy. Every item shows a headline and a link to the original — never the article's text. State-affiliated sources are marked as such. Both languages are treated as first-class: an English item and its Arabic twin are one story, not two.
The directory
Every entry links to the institution's own site. Where a site no longer works, the entry stays listed and says so. Arabic names appear only where the institution publishes one — a name written wrongly in its own language is worse than an honest gap.
Where we report from
Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, UAE.
How we count readers
The "daily readers" figure on the front page is yesterday's page views, not people: one person reading four pages counts as four. We store one thing — a date and a number. No cookie, no IP address, no device identifier, nothing that could be traced back to you. Requests from known crawlers and prefetches are left out where we can recognise them, and a reader with JavaScript turned off is never counted at all, so the real number is higher than the one we print. We print what we measured.
Corrections and removals
If something we link to should not be here, ask us to remove it.
The newsletter and your email address
What we store
Your email address, the language and frequency you chose, and when you subscribed, confirmed or unsubscribed. Nothing else: no name, no tracking pixels, no click tracking. The website itself counts visits with Google Analytics, with your address truncated and advertising signals switched off, but only if you agree: analytics runs only with your consent, given with OK on the bar at the foot of the page. If you choose No thanks, nothing is sent to Google. Your choice is kept in your browser, not in a cookie, and you can change it at any time under “Privacy choices” in the footer. That counting is not joined to your subscription and never identifies you.
Confirming
After you sign up we send one email with a link. You are subscribed only after you open it; if you don't within 48 hours, nothing more is sent.
Unsubscribing
Every email has an unsubscribe link that works in one click, and your mail app's own Unsubscribe button works too. We then keep your address only on a do-not-send list, so it is never mailed again unless you sign up and confirm afresh.
Who sees it
Only Hada News, and the email service that delivers the messages for us. We never sell or share the list. To have your record removed entirely, write to us through the takedown page.