What the Brief covers — and what it won't waste your time on
A short guide to this paper's desks: The City, Housing, City Hall, Transit and Environment — and the standard every one of them files under.
The City is the front page of daily life here. Housing follows the file that shapes everything else in this region. City Hall covers decisions, not announcements. Transit rides the system it reports on. Environment treats the inlet, the mountains and the rain as a beat, not a backdrop.
Across all of them, one standard: documents before characterizations, named sources wherever possible, opinion always labelled and never mixed in. Wire items that summarize another outlet's reporting will say so and link to it.
This opening edition is about the paper itself — we would rather introduce ourselves honestly than pad the front page with dressed-up filler. The reporting starts as the newsroom files. Tips: tips@burrardbrief.ca.
