About Cali Reporter

A magazine with a point of view: U.S. national headlines, California politics and culture, and West Coast business — covered with conviction, not with the false neutrality of a wire service.

What this is

Cali Reporter is an opinionated daily. We cover the news the way essayists do, not the way press releases do — we lead with the actual story, not the official statement. We assume our readers are intelligent and would rather argue with a strong take than nod along to a hedge-everything paragraph.

What we cover

Four beats: the Iran war and its consequences for the West; California politics and the Newsom administration; California's wildfire season and the policy decisions behind it; and the AI datacenter buildout reshaping the state's energy and water economy. Refreshes three times a day at 7:30 AM, 12:30 PM, and 6:30 PM Pacific.

Our standards

We have a position. We do not have license to invent. Every load-bearing claim in our articles is tied to primary reporting from a named source — typically LA Times, SF Chronicle, CalMatters, Sacramento Bee, KTLA, Newsmax, or wire services — and linked back to the original. We do not fabricate quotes, attribute positions to named officials that aren't in the source record, or push causal claims the underlying reporting doesn't support.

We will be wrong. When we are, we will correct the record at the top of the affected article and say what we got wrong, not bury it.

Sources

We pull from a curated mix of national wire feeds and California-focused publishers. We rewrite in our own voice and credit every source by name with a link to the original article. If you are an editor at one of our source publications and want a feed delisted, write to us and we will remove it on the next deploy.

Contact

Corrections, takedowns, or tips: editor@calireporter.com.