THE STEWARD'S POST
What this is
The Steward's Post is a Texas-focused daily news edition. You tell us, in your own words, what you want to follow. Each day we build you one small set of stories drawn from Texas newsrooms. It isn't an endless feed, and no algorithm is guessing what keeps you scrolling. When you reach the end, that's it. The edition closes with a simple line: That's today.
That's the whole product. Everything else on this page is why we built it this way.
A steward, not an owner
A steward tends something valuable on behalf of the person who actually owns it. They don't claim it, rewrite it or dress it up as their own. They care for it and hand it to the right person at the right time.
That's how we want to stand with the newsrooms we carry, and with you. What you read, what you wrote, what we know: all of it is yours. We don't sell it and we don't mine it. The journalism belongs to the people who did it; we just show it, credit it and point you back to where it came from.
Why the edition ends
Most news products want you to stay. Ours is news you can finish. A daily edition that closes tells you two things at once: you're caught up, and we're not trying to keep you here longer than the news itself warrants. Your day has a shape. So does the edition.
Why Texas
Because a regional, curated edition is a real product worth building well. And because Texas journalism, in particular, deserves a distributor that treats it with some respect instead of strip-mining it for engagement. We're not trying to be the whole internet. We're trying to be a well-tended shelf of Texas news.
Who we are
The Steward's Post is owned by its two founders. No outside investors. No one pays to put a story in your edition. We choose which Texas newsrooms we carry. From those, your brief, your home town and your feedback decide what you see.
We're based in the Dallas–Fort Worth area. We started this because the way news gets bundled and distributed today felt extractive: toward the newsrooms that make it, and toward readers who just want to know what's happening without being trained to doomscroll to find out. We wanted to build the version that isn't.
Questions
Is this free?
Today's edition, the one you're reading, is free: openly available Texas news, linked back to its original source. Today it costs nothing. If that ever changes, we'll say so here first, plainly, before it does.
Where does my brief go?
Here, and to Anthropic's AI model, which reads it to pick your stories. It's used only to choose what's in your edition, and never to train a model. You can read it and edit it any time on the Brief page, and export it or delete it on your Account page.
Do you use my reading behavior to target ads?
No. We don't follow you around the web or build a profile of you, and nothing you see here is chosen by what you read. A sponsor may be chosen by the Texas place you told us you want covered. Nothing else about you, and never your reading history. See the Privacy page for the specifics.
Where our place names come from
The towns, counties, ZIP codes and school districts the place box understands come from the U.S. Census Bureau, and so do the county lines we check them against. Our weather forecast uses the Bureau's points too, except for a neighborhood, which uses a point from the same source as its name.
Most neighborhood and community names come from the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
Houston's super neighborhoods come from the City of Houston (COHGIS).
Austin's neighborhood reporting areas come from the City of Austin, Austin Planning.