Useful before clever
Government, Tynwald, FOI and tender items are rewritten around who is involved, what changed, deadlines and why readers should care.
About Moghrey Mie
A daily Isle of Man briefing built for fast, useful reading.
Moghrey Mie turns local reporting, Tynwald business, government records, FOI, tenders, events, tides and weather into a plain-English morning scan.
Start with what you need
About pages often turn into vague manifestos. This one points each reader to the page that answers the next practical question.
- New reader/today/ - Start with Today for the current scan, then Sources if you want to check where the briefing came from.
- Civic reader/records/ - Use Topics, Records and Standards when you are following Tynwald, FOI, tenders or official decisions.
- Source checker/trust/ - Use Sources, Trust and Corrections to verify links, challenge summaries or send a factual fix.
- Local advertiser/advertising/ - Use Advertising and Media kit for public-safe audience, placement and sponsor information.
Trust at a glance
The useful boundary is simple: public source routes stay visible, private account data stays off the website, and corrections have a named path.
- What it isAn independent Isle of Man morning briefing and public website archive built from dated newsletter issues.
- What it is notNot an official government service, legal advice, private account dashboard or subscriber-data portal.
- How to verifyOpen the source route, dated issue URL, status page or correction route before relying on a summary.
- How to keep it usefulSend corrections with the issue URL, specific claim, public evidence and the clearest replacement text.
Editorial standards
The website should make the briefing feel trustworthy before a reader has to inspect every source link.
Links stay close
Original reporting, public records and official notices keep source routes visible so readers can check the detail.
A public route for fixes
Wrong links, unclear summaries, bad dates and factual corrections go through the corrections mailbox and source-ledger route.
Built for mornings
The site is generated from the daily issue and refreshed with the homepage, archive, topic pages, search data, sitemap and RSS feed.
No private dashboards
Public pages expose editorial and publish status only. Subscriber data, credentials, account settings and internal logs stay off the site.
News plus day planning
The briefing combines local news with events, weather, tides and public notices so readers can act on it immediately.
How each briefing is made
A simple publishing model: collect the public record, translate it for readers, publish it in the inbox and on the web, then keep the correction route visible.
Collect the useful facts
Local reporting, Tynwald material, government records, FOI, tender notices, events, tides and weather are gathered into the daily issue.
Translate the useful facts
Dense public-record language is turned into plain-English cards that answer who, what, when and why it matters.
Publish the useful facts
The email issue and website archive are built from the same data, then public routes, search, RSS, sitemap and status pages are refreshed.
Correct the useful facts
Readers can flag broken links, missing context or factual problems through the corrections route, with source notes kept visible.
What the briefing covers
Each page exists because a reader may arrive with a different need: catch up, follow civic business, plan the day, search the archive or advertise.
- Local newsLead stories and source-attributed local reporting.
- TynwaldAgenda items, decisions and public business in plain English.
- Government and FOIPublic notices, consultations, tenders and FOI responses.
- EventsWhat is on around the Island, with venue and timing context.
- Weather and tidesPractical daily checks for planning the morning.
- Archive and topicsPermanent issue pages, topic hubs, search JSON and RSS.
Useful reader routes
These are the pages to use when you need context rather than another feed of headlines.
Need the source trail?
The Sources page explains the feed model, correction route and examples from the latest issue.
