About Actual Good News

Actual Good News exists because scare tactics work on attention, not on understanding. News channels can keep people watching by stacking harm. This site refuses that stack. It looks at a story and asks whether the event shows the world working: a clinic that finished a cohort, a shoreline replanted, a tool library that logged a loan.

What this run ships

• Guest browsing of a labeled demo corpus.
• Ten category feeds that match The Actual News beats, good news only.
• Twice-daily email digests for $1.19/month or $12/year USD — zero ads, zero spam, one-click unsubscribe.
• Optional accounts so desks, places, sports, and weather can match the home feed.
• A story page with facts, a source note, and no doom-scroll extras.
• A public Is this good news? tool for reviewers.

Out of scope

There is no live worldwide crawl, no native app, no ads that fear-sell, and no mixing in political coverage from The Actual News. The brighter design is intentional: grown-up, not saccharine, and not a dark news terminal.

Who keeps it

Project officer: Bright. Origin namespace: thetaxstar. The public home of this project is actualgoodnews.com.