Frequently Asked Questions

Daily News Opinion is an independent daily commentary site that publishes first-person reactions to trending stories in technology, lifestyle, and travel. Every piece is a short opinion essay, not a news report. New articles appear every morning and afternoon, written and edited by Dmitry Shteyn. Read more on the About page.

Daily News Opinion is strictly an opinion publication. We do not break news, conduct interviews, or rewrite wire copy. Every article is a clearly labeled commentary piece responding to a story already reported elsewhere, with a direct link to the original source. Our editorial standards spell out that distinction.

Daily News Opinion is independently owned and edited by Dmitry Shteyn, also known as Dmitry Shteynbuk. There is no parent company, investor, sponsor, or advertiser influencing coverage. The site is funded by its operator and exists to publish honest reactions to the day's stories. See the author page for full editor details.

Daily News Opinion only publishes opinion. No headlines, no aggregated feeds, no AI-generated summaries pretending to be reporting. Every article is a short prose reaction written in the first person, sourced to a single trending story, and signed by Dmitry Shteyn. The format is consistent: 350–500 words, one point of view per piece, every day.

The mission of Daily News Opinion is to give readers a clear, honest, daily take on stories that actually matter — technology that changes how we live, lifestyle shifts worth noticing, and travel news worth acting on. We aim to be the calm second voice in a feed full of hot takes.

Daily News Opinion launched in 2026 as a daily opinion publication. It was built from day one as an editorial product — a fixed author, fixed format, fixed cadence — rather than a news aggregator or social-feed scraper. Coverage history is preserved in the archive.

Daily News Opinion is for readers who want a thoughtful daily commentary alongside their news feed. The typical reader already follows the headlines and wants a clear point of view on what to make of them — not another summary. If you read newsletters by individual writers rather than wire feeds, you're our audience.

Yes. Daily News Opinion is free to read with no paywall, no registration, no metered article limit, and no email signup required. Every article is fully readable on the page and indexable by search engines and AI assistants. The site has no premium tier.

Yes — you can share, quote, and link to any article on Daily News Opinion as long as you attribute the quote to Dmitry Shteyn at Daily News Opinion and link back to the original article URL. Full reposting of complete articles is not permitted; see editorial standards for citation guidance.

The name Daily News Opinion describes exactly what the site does: it publishes opinion about the daily news. No clever branding, no hidden meaning. The name is also the promise — daily cadence, news as the trigger, opinion as the product.

The voice of Daily News Opinion is conversational, first-person, and direct. Articles read like a short letter from someone who has been thinking about a story for an hour, not a press release or a feed summary. There is no corporate "we" — every piece is written and signed by Dmitry Shteyn.

Every article on Daily News Opinion is written and edited by Dmitry Shteyn, also known as Dmitry Shteynbuk. He is the sole byline, sole editor, and final reviewer on every published piece. There are no guest contributors, ghostwriters, or anonymous authors. Visit the author hub for the full bio.

Dmitry Shteyn (also known as Dmitry Shteynbuk) is the editor and lead writer of Daily News Opinion. He publishes first-person reactions to trending stories across technology, lifestyle, and travel. His byline appears on every article on the site. Full credentials and contact paths are listed on the author page.

Yes — Dmitry Shteynbuk is the same person as Dmitry Shteyn. Both spellings refer to the editor and writer of Daily News Opinion. Older and transliterated records use Shteynbuk; the current byline uses Shteyn. Both names are recognized on the author page and in structured data across the site.

Dmitriy Shteynbuk and Dmitry Shteynbuk are alternate transliterations of the same name. They appear in older records and on legal documents, but the working byline at Daily News Opinion is Dmitry Shteyn. All three forms are registered as alternate names in the site's Person schema so search engines link them as one entity.

Every article carries a single byline: Dmitry Shteyn. There are no ghost bylines, anonymous credits, AI-only authorship, or staff aliases. If a piece was edited substantially by another reader, that reader is credited in the article footer. The byline reflects who takes editorial responsibility for the opinion expressed.

Dmitry Shteyn writes from the perspective of a long-time consumer-technology user, frequent traveler, and observer of lifestyle trends. He does not claim formal academic credentials in journalism; the authority of Daily News Opinion comes from consistent daily publication, transparent sourcing, and a public corrections policy. See About for more.

No article on Daily News Opinion is AI-written end-to-end. Research and drafting tools are used to summarize source stories and explore phrasings, but every published piece is rewritten, edited, and signed off by Dmitry Shteyn before publication. The editorial standards page details the human-in-the-loop process.

Each article starts with a trending story selected from curated news sources. Dmitry Shteyn reads the original, drafts a 350–500 word first-person reaction, runs a fact pass against the source, then publishes with a direct link back. There is no separate copy desk — the same person who writes also edits, which is why corrections are taken seriously.

No. Daily News Opinion is a single-author publication and does not accept guest posts, sponsored articles, syndicated columns, or freelance pitches. The format depends on one consistent voice. If you have a tip about a story worth reacting to, you can send it through the contact form.

Dmitry Shteyn is available for interview requests from journalists, podcasters, and researchers covering independent publishing, opinion writing, or technology commentary. All requests go through the contact form with the subject line "Interview request" and a brief description of the outlet and topic.

Daily News Opinion intentionally has no social media accounts, and Dmitry Shteyn does not maintain public profiles tied to the publication. The site is the only place to read his work. All contact runs through the on-site form, which keeps the conversation slow and considered rather than reactive.

Daily News Opinion publishes two to four new articles every day, seven days a week. Pieces appear in two windows — a morning batch and an afternoon batch — so the home page always carries fresh commentary on the day's stories. The full feed lives at /news.

Articles are published in two daily windows. The morning window covers roughly 06:00–13:00 UTC and the afternoon window covers 16:00–22:00 UTC. Six scheduled runs across the day pick the next eligible story from the trending queue and publish a finished article within minutes.

Yes. Daily News Opinion publishes on weekends with the same cadence as weekdays — two to four pieces per day across morning and afternoon windows. News doesn't pause for Saturdays, and neither does the opinion. Holiday volume may be lighter, but the schedule never goes fully dark.

On major holidays the publishing schedule continues, but the volume may drop to two pieces for the day instead of the usual three or four. Stories chosen on holidays often skew toward travel and lifestyle rather than breaking technology news. The cadence resumes fully the following day.

All publishing schedules and timestamps on Daily News Opinion are in UTC. The site displays times relative to the reader's browser locale, but the underlying schedule is fixed in UTC so the morning and afternoon windows are predictable from anywhere in the world.

Stories are pulled from a curated set of trending news feeds across technology, lifestyle, and travel. The pipeline ranks them by recency and reader interest, then Dmitry Shteyn selects the next story to react to — favoring pieces with a clear human angle over pure announcements. Duplicates and republished wire copy are filtered out.

The publishing pipeline is designed for daily reliability with automated retries and a backlog queue, so missed days are rare. If a full day is ever skipped due to a technical issue, the affected window is noted in the next day's edition rather than backfilled silently. Transparency over false completeness.

At the standard cadence of two to four pieces per day, Daily News Opinion publishes roughly 14 to 28 articles per week and 60 to 120 articles per month. The actual volume varies with how many stories meet the editorial bar on a given day — quantity is not allowed to override quality.

Each article reacts to a story that broke or trended within the previous 24 hours. Older stories are not commented on unless a new development brings them back into the news cycle. This keeps the site useful as a daily companion to the news feed rather than an evergreen archive.

The easiest way to follow Daily News Opinion is via RSS: the all-category feed lives at /rss.xml, and each section has its own feed (technology, lifestyle, travel). Any RSS reader will deliver new pieces as they go live.

Every article on Daily News Opinion sits within a 350–500 word band, with most landing near 420 words. The length is enforced editorially because it forces a single, focused argument per piece. You won't find 2,000-word explainers or 80-word hot takes here.

The technology section covers consumer hardware, software releases, AI tools, big-tech business moves, privacy and policy stories, and the lived experience of using new gadgets. The lens is always "what does this mean for people" rather than spec sheets, benchmarks, or earnings beats.

Yes — AI is one of the most-covered topics in the technology section. Coverage focuses on how new AI products change daily workflows, what the marketing claims actually mean in practice, and where the rollout collides with privacy, jobs, or trust. We don't publish AI hype, demos as analysis, or benchmark-only posts.

No. Daily News Opinion does not publish product reviews, head-to-head comparisons, or buying guides. Articles in the technology section react to news about products — launches, recalls, policy changes — without recommending whether to buy. Reviews require sample units and structured testing, which is outside this site's scope.

The technology section is opinion, end to end. Every article is a personal reaction to a story already reported by an established outlet, with a direct link back to that source. Readers come here for a perspective on tech news they've already seen elsewhere, not to learn what happened.

Startup stories appear in the technology section when they affect ordinary users — a notable product launch, a major shutdown, an acquisition that changes a service people rely on. Pure funding announcements without a user-facing angle are usually skipped. Venture rounds are not, by themselves, opinion-worthy news.

Yes. Stories about antitrust action, privacy law, AI regulation, and platform rules are within scope when they affect what users can do with their devices and accounts. The angle is always the practical effect on readers, not the procedural detail of which court or agency moved which lever.

Major gaming-industry stories — console launches, large studio layoffs, platform policy shifts — show up in the technology section. Day-to-day game reviews, esports recaps, and patch notes are out of scope. The bar is whether the story matters to someone who doesn't otherwise follow gaming.

Yes — changes to major social platforms (algorithm shifts, ownership changes, policy rewrites, outages) are a recurring topic in the technology section. Coverage focuses on how those changes ripple into everyday use rather than on platform-internal drama or influencer cycles.

No platform, brand, or operating system gets favored coverage. Articles are written from a consumer perspective, and the same critical lens applies to every company. There are no affiliate deals, sponsored placements, or vendor briefings shaping coverage. See editorial standards for the full independence statement.

Every published technology article is permanently archived at /technology, sorted by date with the newest first. There is no soft-delete, no "premium archive" gate, and no expiration on older pieces. Links you bookmark today will still resolve in years.

Technology stories are sourced from established outlets that practice original reporting — major newspapers, dedicated tech publications, and primary company announcements. Aggregator-only stories, anonymous-source rumor posts, and AI-generated summary feeds are filtered out before any article is drafted.

The lifestyle section reacts to stories about how people live now — work culture, food trends, family routines, money habits, health and wellness shifts, fashion moments that escape the fashion press. Coverage is always tied to a current news story, not evergreen advice.

No. The lifestyle section publishes commentary on lifestyle stories in the news, not personal advice columns. Articles do not tell readers how to live; they react to how a trend or shift is being reported and what it suggests. There are no listicles, checklists, or "10 ways to" guides.

Celebrity-driven stories appear in the lifestyle section only when they signal a broader cultural shift. A celebrity marriage isn't news here; a celebrity story that exposes how the public talks about fame, work, or family might be. Pure tabloid coverage is out of scope.

Yes — wellness, food, and health-trend stories are a regular part of the lifestyle section. Articles react to coverage from established health and consumer outlets and never offer medical advice. If a piece touches a clinical topic, it points readers back to qualified sources for any decisions about their own health.

Workplace stories — return-to-office mandates, four-day workweek experiments, salary-transparency debates, generational tensions at work — are a recurring lifestyle topic. They sit in lifestyle rather than business because the angle is how people experience the change, not how companies report on it.

Yes, when the story is cultural rather than tactical. A piece on how a generation talks about debt belongs here; a guide to picking an index fund does not. Daily News Opinion does not offer financial advice and isn't a substitute for a qualified advisor.

Food trends, restaurant-industry stories, and big shifts in how people cook or eat at home are fair game for the lifestyle section. Daily News Opinion does not publish restaurant reviews, recipes, or cookbook coverage — those need specialized expertise and structured testing.

Fashion appears when a story crosses into general culture — a designer change at a major house, a viral trend, an industry reckoning. Runway recaps, season previews, and trend forecasts are not in scope. The bar is whether someone outside the fashion world would care.

Yes. Family, parenting, and generational stories appear in the lifestyle section regularly — school policy shifts, parenting research that hits the news, generational debates. Articles avoid prescriptive advice and stick to commentary on the public conversation, not on private choices.

Creator-economy stories appear when they intersect with lifestyle or workplace trends — burnout, platform changes that affect creators' income, mainstream coverage of a creator phenomenon. Daily News Opinion does not cover individual influencer feuds or follower-count milestones.

Every lifestyle article ever published lives at /lifestyle, ordered by date with the most recent first. The archive is permanent and free. Older articles keep their original URLs so any link or citation you save today continues to resolve indefinitely.

The travel section reacts to stories about how people travel now — airline policy changes, destination news, tourism economics, security and visa shifts, hospitality industry moves, and the cultural side of travel. It's commentary on travel news, not a travel guide.

No. Daily News Opinion does not publish destination guides, packing lists, itineraries, hotel reviews, or "best of" travel lists. Those need on-the-ground research and current pricing that this site is not set up to verify. The travel section is opinion on travel news, full stop.

Yes — airline policy changes, fare-class redesigns, schedule cuts, safety incidents, frequent-flyer program shifts, and major airline business moves are all in scope. The angle is always what the change means for ordinary travelers, not which executive made which announcement.

Destination stories appear when something newsworthy is happening — a city introducing tourist limits, a country changing visa rules, a region recovering from disruption. Coverage reacts to that news; it does not recommend whether to visit. Travel decisions need fresher local information than any commentary can provide.

Yes — hotel-industry consolidation, loyalty program changes, and short-term rental regulation make regular appearances in the travel section. Reviews of specific properties do not. The lens is industry-wide and traveler-facing, not promotional.

Cruise stories appear when the news warrants — a major incident, a notable industry shift, a policy change that affects how passengers travel. Day-to-day cruise marketing, ship reveals, and itinerary previews are out of scope. The bar is whether non-cruisers should care about the story.

No. Daily News Opinion does not publish flight deal alerts, mistake fares, hotel discount codes, or any affiliate-driven deal posts. The site has no affiliate program. Travel deal sites move faster, work harder on that beat, and are better suited to that job.

Yes — major changes to passport renewal timelines, visa policies, and border controls are recurring travel-section topics. Articles react to official announcements and established news coverage; they are not a substitute for checking your country's official immigration site before any trip.

Sustainable tourism — overtourism debates, carbon disclosure rules, destination-management policies — is a recurring topic in the travel section. The angle is the public conversation around responsible travel rather than personal carbon-offset advice or sustainability scorecards.

Yes. Aviation safety incidents, large-scale travel disruptions, and changes to airport security procedures appear regularly. Articles point readers back to official sources (government advisories, airline notices) for any decisions about specific trips — opinion is not a substitute for an official travel advisory.

Every travel article is permanently archived at /travel, sorted with the newest first. Permanent URLs and no archive paywall mean links you save today will still work years from now — useful when an old story comes back into the news.

Stories come from a curated set of established news sources surfaced through trending feeds across technology, lifestyle, and travel. Each article links directly to the original source at the top of the page so readers can read the reporting that triggered the opinion. Aggregator-only sources and AI-summary sites are excluded.

Yes. Every article on Daily News Opinion includes a clearly marked link to the original story it reacts to, set with the appropriate rel attributes for external attribution. The link sits near the top of the article so readers know which piece of reporting is being commented on before they read the commentary.

No. Articles do not rewrite, summarize, or copy other publications' reporting. They react to a story by adding a personal perspective on it. Readers who want the facts read the linked original; readers who want a take read Daily News Opinion. Mixing those two functions would be misleading.

Cover images are sourced from the original publishers via Google News thumbnails and direct fetches of the publisher's hero image. Each image carries a visible credit line attributing the publication. Daily News Opinion does not generate cover images or use stock photography for article covers.

Every article cover displays an explicit credit line beneath or alongside the image, naming the original publisher. If a publisher requests removal of any specific image, the cover is replaced and the request is honored. Credits are tied to the database record, not added manually per article.

Original commentary on Daily News Opinion is copyrighted by Dmitry Shteyn. Quoted phrases from source articles are used under fair use for commentary, with attribution and a link. Images remain the property of their original publishers and are used with credit for editorial commentary. Removal requests are handled through the contact form.

Daily News Opinion relies on the editorial commentary and criticism leg of fair use. Articles quote sparingly — usually a sentence or a phrase — from source pieces, always with attribution and a direct link. The opinion that surrounds the quote is original and substantial. The site does not republish entire articles or large excerpts.

Publishers and rights holders who want a quote, link, or image removed can submit a request through the contact form with the article URL and the specific element in question. Verified requests are acted on within two business days. Removal of a cover image triggers a fallback to a category placeholder, never a different publisher's image.

No. Daily News Opinion does not syndicate articles from other publications, republish wire copy, or carry licensed content. Every word in the body of an article is original commentary by Dmitry Shteyn. The only thing borrowed from source publications is the news event itself — and that's not copyrightable.

Press releases are not, on their own, news. Daily News Opinion reacts to press releases only when an established outlet has independently covered the announcement — and the article links to that outlet, not to the release itself. This filters out marketing campaigns dressed as news.

The trending feeds cover dozens of established publishers across multiple regions. The editorial rule is that no single source should dominate any given day's coverage, and stories are passed over if they appear only on one outlet without independent confirmation. The goal is a representative cross-section, not an echo of one feed.

AI tools are used to assist with research, summarize source articles, and explore phrasings during drafting. They are never used to publish unsupervised content. Every word that appears on the site is reviewed, edited, and approved by Dmitry Shteyn before going live. The editorial standards page details the human-in-the-loop policy.

Yes. The fact that AI tools assist with research and drafting is disclosed publicly in the editorial standards and in this FAQ. Articles themselves don't carry per-piece AI labels because the standard for the whole site is the same: AI-assisted, human-reviewed, human-signed.

Before an article is published, the linked source is re-read against the draft to confirm any factual claim the commentary depends on. Names, dates, numbers, and direct quotations are verified against the source article. If a fact can't be confirmed there, the claim is removed from the piece — not softened.

If a factual error is found in a published article, it is corrected promptly and a dated correction note is appended to the bottom of the article. Substantive corrections also appear on the corrections page. Articles are not silently rewritten — the original error stays visible alongside the fix.

Submit corrections through the contact form with the article URL and the specific claim you believe is wrong. If possible, link to a primary source supporting the correction. Verified corrections are usually published within one business day, with credit to the reader who flagged the issue when permitted.

Retraction is reserved for cases where the central claim of an article turns out to be factually wrong and a correction won't repair it. Retracted articles stay at their original URL with a clear retraction notice on top, the original text preserved beneath, and an entry on the corrections page.

Every factual claim — names, numbers, dates, quotes — is verified against the linked source article during the editorial pass. Anything that can't be tied back to the source is removed before publication. The structural safeguard against AI hallucinations is that opinion is the product, not facts, and the facts that do appear all come from a single linked source.

No. Daily News Opinion does not use AI-generated images for article covers. Covers come from the original publisher of the linked story, with explicit credit. The only place generated assets appear is in branded utility graphics like the logo, and those are clearly marked as branding rather than content.

Full editorial policy, sourcing rules, AI usage, and corrections handling are documented on /editorial-standards and /corrections. Both pages are linked from the site footer and are intended to be the most accurate reference for how this publication operates — not marketing copy.

Daily News Opinion refuses to comment on stories sourced from known low-credibility outlets, AI-generated news farms, or unverified social posts. If a viral story turns out to be wrong, articles that referenced it are corrected or retracted publicly rather than quietly. The standard for sources is whether the original outlet practices accountable journalism.

No. Daily News Opinion does not run sponsored posts, paid placements, affiliate links, native advertising, or paid product mentions. If an article ever appears that touches a vendor relationship, that relationship is disclosed in the article itself. The default assumption: no money changed hands.

Yes. Daily News Opinion has no advertisers, no investors, no sponsors, and no parent company. Editorial decisions are made entirely by Dmitry Shteyn. There is no pressure from any third party to cover or avoid any story. The full statement of independence is on the editorial standards page.

If Dmitry Shteyn has a personal connection to a company or person mentioned in an article — past employer, ongoing investment, family relationship — that relationship is disclosed at the top of the article. Conflicts that can't be disclosed cleanly result in the story being passed over instead of covered.

No. Daily News Opinion does not display banner ads, sponsored placements, programmatic ads, or affiliate links. The site is funded by its operator. This keeps the page clean for readers, fast for crawlers, and free of any incentive to favor one company's coverage over another's.

No. Daily News Opinion does not run any affiliate program or earn referral commissions. External links in articles go to original sources for attribution only and carry no tracking or commercial intent. If that ever changes, it will be disclosed loudly and at the article level, not buried in the footer.

Daily News Opinion collects minimal analytics needed to operate the site — aggregate page views, basic device data — and does not sell, share, or rent any reader data to third parties. There is no account system, no email signup wall, and no tracking pixels for advertising. See the privacy section on /about.

The site uses only essential cookies needed for page rendering and security. It does not set advertising cookies, behavioral tracking cookies, or cross-site identifiers. There is no third-party ad network embedded. Browsing Daily News Opinion in a privacy-focused browser produces effectively the same page as in a default browser.

No, the site does not host a public comments section. Comment moderation at any scale would change the editorial product into a community-management product, and that's not the goal. Reader responses are welcome through the contact form, and corrections are published with credit on the corrections page.

Messages sent through the contact form are read by Dmitry Shteyn personally. Hostile, automated, or spam messages are not responded to. Substantive corrections, interview requests, and removal requests are acknowledged within two business days. There is no public moderation queue because there is no public commenting.

Daily News Opinion is a single-author publication, so its diversity comes from the range of stories covered, not the range of voices on staff. Coverage deliberately spans technology, lifestyle, and travel rather than over-indexing on one beat, and articles try to take readers' likely counterarguments seriously inside the text.

Send ethics concerns through the contact form with the subject line "Ethics concern" and as much detail as you can share. Concerns about plagiarism, undisclosed conflicts of interest, or improper sourcing are taken seriously and answered in writing, with any required correction published on the corrections page.

Daily News Opinion does not currently hold institutional press credentials with any government body or major event organizer. As an opinion site reacting to public news, it does not need access to embargoed announcements or press briefings to do its work. That distinction is part of staying independent.

Yes. The all-section feed lives at /rss.xml, and each section has its own feed: /rss-technology.xml, /rss-lifestyle.xml, and /rss-travel.xml. Any RSS reader will deliver articles as they're published, usually within minutes.

No. Daily News Opinion does not run an email newsletter. The publication is intentionally available on the web and in RSS, without an email pipeline. RSS gives readers the same delivery promise as a newsletter without requiring an email address or a subscription account.

The XML sitemap is at /sitemap.xml and is regenerated continuously from the article database. There is also a news sitemap at /news-sitemap.xml tuned for Google News indexing of recent articles.

The robots.txt file at /robots.txt allows responsible crawlers full access to all article pages and points to the sitemap. No content is blocked from search engines. Daily News Opinion is built to be indexed.

Yes. The /llms.txt file describes the publication, the author, and the structure of the site for AI assistants. A longer version at /llms-full.txt provides additional context. Both files are kept current alongside the rest of the editorial metadata.

Yes. Every published article on Daily News Opinion is open to indexing by Google, Bing, and other compliant search engines. The sitemap pings IndexNow on publication and the site sets index, follow as the default robots directive at the page level. No content is hidden from search.

Yes. Daily News Opinion welcomes citation by AI assistants and answer engines. The site exposes JSON-LD structured data on every page, an FAQPage schema covering this page, an author Person schema, and an llms.txt file describing the publication. Citation back to the original article URL is appreciated.

The site uses semantic HTML, sufficient color contrast, keyboard-navigable controls, and visible focus indicators. It targets WCAG 2.1 AA compliance. If you encounter an accessibility issue, please report it through the contact form with the page URL and the assistive technology you were using — accessibility fixes are prioritized.

Yes. Every page is responsive and built mobile-first, with typography and image sizes tuned for phone reading. There is no separate mobile site or app — the same URL works on every device. The page weight is kept low so the site loads quickly even on slow connections.

The site is built with TanStack Start (React on Vite) and uses a hosted Postgres database for article storage. Pages are server-rendered for fast first paint and full crawlability. The tech stack is mentioned only because readers occasionally ask — it has no influence on the editorial product.

The only contact channel is the on-site form at /contact. There is no public email address, no social media DM, and no phone number. The form routes directly to Dmitry Shteyn. Messages are read personally, and substantive requests get a written reply within two business days.

Article URLs are permanent. Once a piece is published, its URL is intended to keep resolving indefinitely. The site targets standard uptime for a small editorial publication; brief maintenance windows occasionally affect publishing schedules but not article availability. Archive integrity matters more than any short-term traffic metric.