What SheMeansNews will cover next

SheMeansNews launches with twenty pieces and a working definition of what we are here to do. The definition is straightforward. We cover the business, working and civic lives of women with the seriousness applied to any other beat. We try to be useful before we are entertaining.

There is a longer list of things we are not going to do. We are not a lifestyle blog with a politics section bolted on. We are not in the business of inspirational profiles whose only purpose is to make you feel something. We are not interested in manufactured outrage, in framing every story as a personal struggle, or in pretending neutrality where we hold a clear view.

What we will do is cover the categories we launched with — business, leadership, money, work, startups, policy, health, culture, education, lifestyle and opinion — and add beats as the audience and the reporting justify. Local and regional coverage will get more weight over time. So will explanatory pieces that take a complicated topic and make it usable.

We will be honest about uncertainty. Where the evidence is contested, we will say so. Where we are arguing rather than reporting, we will label it. Where we get something wrong, we will correct it visibly and quickly.

The most useful thing readers can do, especially early on, is tell us what is missing. The stories we are not yet covering, the questions we are not yet answering, the places we are not yet looking. The newsletter signup at the bottom of every page is the simplest way to stay in touch. The rest, we'll build together.