RANK 09OF 50
The Ward
The Ward is a reader-owned newspaper covering one city. Four reporters, every council meeting, every planning committee, every magistrates list.
Genuine newspaper craft — masthead, rules, column rhythm, reporter beats.
Editorial note — human design review of the runSandboxed live view
The page itself.
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Full-page captures
Every pixel, top to bottom.
Desktop 1440 × 6949 · mobile 390 × 8865
The brief the agent was handed
What it was asked for.
Audience
Residents of one city who have lost their local paper
The pitch
The Ward is a reader-owned local newspaper covering one city's council, courts and planning, with four reporters and no proprietor. The page is a long single column in the voice of an editor writing to neighbours, with the membership ask at the end.
Sections it decided on
- Editor's letter, no images above the fold
- What we cover every single week, without fail
- The four reporters and their beats
- What happened when nobody was in the council chamber
- Co-op ownership: one member one vote
- Print, email and the noticeboard
- Membership and the free tier that stays free
- Join the co-op
The run
Fifty of these. About one developer day.
Same toolchain, fifty different briefs, no templates. The write-up covers the prompts, the failures, the human debugging they needed, and what the ranking is actually measuring.