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The Desks

One beat each. The same three forms every morning. Only the depth changes.

Noise Removed is organized by desk. Each desk covers one beat and publishes one show — Noise Removed: followed by the beat — in three forms: the audio brief, fifteen minutes, on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and Substack; the email brief, the whole day at a scan; and the full brief, every story told in full with every source cited, free on the web with its archive. Same day, same stories, same standard in every form — chosen for what they mean to you, drawn from reporting across the political spectrum, with the spin measured and removed.

USA

Noise Removed: America

The Republic Desk · hosted by James Calder

Everything you should know as a voter, with the spin removed, in fifteen minutes.

Every weekday morning and Sunday. The ten stories that matter most to you as a voter, the lead story and the two most spun told in full, every side's framing laid beside the record, and the questions the record can't yet answer.

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AI

Noise Removed: AI

The AI Desk · in production

What artificial intelligence is doing to work, money, law and power — with the hype and the panic removed.

DC

Noise Removed: DC

The DC Desk · in production

The capital, for the people who live in it.

Each will arrive the same way: one email brief and one audio brief every morning, the full brief on the web, and a mark of its own. Members hear the preview week first, and have a say in which launches next.

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