Editorial Policy
How content is selected, presented and labelled across The City Brief city editions.
Our approach
The City Brief publishes concise, city-focused newsletters designed to highlight what is happening locally each week.
Our goal is clarity and usefulness. Each edition focuses on practical updates: events, openings, cultural highlights, community initiatives and relevant local changes.
We do not aim to replicate national news coverage. Our focus is city-specific information that readers can act on, attend or experience directly.
How content is sourced
Content included in each edition is gathered from publicly available information, direct submissions and verified local sources.
- Public event listings and venue websites
- Official box offices and Ticketmaster
- Google Events and OpenStreetMap venue data
- Local business announcements
- Community submissions
- Official city and institutional updates
- Direct advertiser information (where applicable)
Events are verified against source URLs before publishing. All content is reviewed for relevance and clarity before publication.
Use of technology
The City Brief uses modern digital tools to assist with content aggregation, formatting and distribution.
Technology enables us to scale consistently across multiple cities while maintaining a structured, concise format.
We use AI tools to help draft and summarise listings. Every page is generated from verified event and venue data, follows strict grounding rules (nothing is published that is not in our source data), and the pipeline is designed and overseen by our editor.
Final editorial decisions remain guided by clear standards of relevance, clarity and appropriateness for each city edition.
We do not use automated systems to generate fabricated events, fictional listings or synthetic local stories.
Editor
The City Brief is edited by Dean Withey, a Norwich-based founder and investor. A former RAF pilot, Dean founded and sold two technology companies — London Stone Trading (FinTech, acquired 2014) and ubisend, a conversational AI platform used by the NHS and BAE Systems (acquired 2022) — and has delivered more than thirty enterprise AI systems. He holds an MBA and a Master's in Professional Consulting, and runs a portfolio of ventures including The City Brief.
For editorial enquiries, contact [email protected].
Update cadence
Event listings on city sites are refreshed weekly. Venue profiles and guides are updated on a rolling schedule. Every published page shows its last-updated date.
The weekly email newsletter is sent every Thursday to subscribers in each city.
Advertising and sponsored placements
Advertising supports the continued publication and expansion of The City Brief.
All paid placements are clearly labelled within each edition.
Sponsored content is presented in a structured format distinct from editorial listings. Advertisers do not control unrelated editorial content.
We do not allow undisclosed paid placements.
Corrections and updates
If an error is identified in a published edition, we will correct it in the next available issue or update the digital archive where applicable.
Readers and businesses may contact us to report inaccuracies or request clarification via [email protected] or our contact page.
We aim to correct verified errors within 48 hours. Corrected pages are redeployed and resubmitted for indexing where applicable.
We aim to maintain accuracy, but local information can change quickly. We encourage readers to verify event details directly with organisers when appropriate.
In an AI-powered world, you can no longer trust what you see and hear online. The future is local: trusting only what you can see for yourself.
Community submissions
Local businesses, organisers and community groups may submit events or updates for consideration.
Inclusion is based on relevance, clarity and alignment with the city-focused format of The City Brief.
Submission does not guarantee publication.
Editorial independence
The City Brief maintains control over the structure and content of each edition.
While advertising supports the platform, commercial relationships do not determine unrelated editorial coverage.
Our priority remains delivering useful, relevant information to readers in each city.
Contact
For editorial enquiries, corrections or content submissions, please contact: