Independent reporting for stories worth understanding.

Purpose

Why Crazy News exists

There is already more news available than any reader could realistically consume. Crazy News does not exist simply to add another version of the same story to that pile.

Our aim is to publish journalism that gives people a reason to remain with a subject beyond the first headline. Sometimes that means examining documents or reconstructing a timeline. Sometimes it means comparing competing claims. Sometimes it means taking a complicated international or technological issue and explaining the systems behind it.

It can also mean bringing large subjects back to ordinary life. Housing policy eventually becomes somebody's rent. Economic change becomes somebody's job. Technology becomes somebody's routine, relationship, privacy or expectation of the future.

A story should earn its place on Crazy News by adding understanding. Speed matters in journalism, but being first is of limited value if what reaches the reader is incomplete, misleading or wrong.

Coverage

What we publish

Crazy News covers subjects that frequently cross the boundaries between traditional newspaper sections.

• Investigations and accountability reporting
• International affairs and world reporting
• Technology, infrastructure and privacy
• Society, housing and cost of living
• Culture, online life, music and social change
• Politics and public policy
• Analysis and long-form journalism
• Verification of developing stories and disputed claims

We do not treat these as sealed departments. A housing story can be economic, political and deeply personal at the same time. A technology story can quickly become an energy story. A cultural shift can become a question about business, regulation or human behaviour.

Method

How we report

Crazy News prioritises primary and directly verifiable material wherever it is reasonably available. Depending on the story, that can include original documents, public records, official data, interviews, direct observation and material that can be independently corroborated.

A statement from a government, company, campaign group, institution or individual is evidence of what that source says. It is not automatically proof that the underlying claim is true.

Reporting should therefore distinguish between what has been confirmed, what has been alleged, what remains disputed and what cannot yet be established.

Our more detailed rules on sourcing, attribution, corrections, headlines and visual material are set out separately.

History

Where Crazy News came from

Crazy News began with Michael Frisch. After an unconventional career in business, years of travelling and a long involvement in activism, journalism increasingly became the place where his interest in people, politics, argument and evidence could come together.

Over time that project developed into a newsroom shaped as much by relationships and shared curiosity as conventional recruitment. Different reporters arrived through very different routes and brought their own interests, backgrounds and ways of approaching a story.

People

Our newsroom

Crazy News currently works through a deliberately small team. Each reporter has a distinct beat and reporting style rather than being expected to sound interchangeable.

Arthur Gacy Jr. focuses on investigations and evidence-heavy reporting. Maria Wojciechowska covers culture and society from a strongly people-focused perspective. Edward Lee works across international affairs, technology, infrastructure and historical context. Founder Michael Frisch brings analysis, institutional knowledge and a willingness to challenge comfortable assumptions.

Meet the full newsroom

Accountability

Corrections are part of journalism

Journalism should give readers a visible way to challenge factual errors. We maintain a dedicated corrections process rather than treating mistakes as something to conceal or quietly erase.

Significant factual errors should be corrected in a way that explains what was wrong and what changed. A factual correction, clarification and ordinary story update are not the same thing, and we do not believe they should automatically be presented as though they are.

The newsroom

Talk to Crazy News

Journalism is not produced in isolation. Readers, witnesses, employees, researchers, specialists and people directly affected by a story can all provide information that changes what is understood.

We welcome corrections, ordinary correspondence, story suggestions and material that may be in the public interest.