About & sources
The Journey Brief is an automated brief on personal finance. A scheduled job reads the feeds listed below, merges any stories that several outlets are covering into a single entry, and writes a short summary in our own words. We never reproduce the publisher's article text — every entry links straight to the original reporting, and headlines remain the property of the publisher.
Editorial rules
- Short original summaries only (target 45 words), plus a one-line "why it matters".
- Automatic check that no twelve-word span is shared with the source text.
- New stories can be held for review before they appear.
- Corrections, removals and takedown requests: see the contact below — we act on them promptly.
Advertising
Sponsored placements are labelled "Sponsored" and are never styled to look like editorial. They are limited to one unit per five feed items, one per story and one sidebar unit, and no pop-ups or interstitials are used. Ads link to CrowdfundShowcase listings and are marked as such.
How this site works, and why it is not a deals site
A travel deal summarised an hour after it was posted is not stale, it is wrong: the fare moved, the seats went, the sale ended. Since a wrong price is worse than no price, this site does not publish deal posts. It covers what stays true instead — routes, schedules, operators, rules and the travel industry.
- No fare or availability here is a current price. Where a fare appears it is the figure a source advertised at the time of that report, with its conditions, and fares change.
- We never claim a sale is running, that seats are free, or that a deal is live.
- We do not use the cheap-fare feeds, because a price plus an expiry is all they contain and both are wrong within hours.
- On an entry, visa or border rule we report the rule, the date it applies from and who it applies to, as the authority states it. We do not give immigration advice or judge whether anyone qualifies.
- On safety, we report only what the official advisory says, and we never assess risk.
- Destination guides, rankings and photo features are capped below the front page: they are traffic, not news.
Feeds we read
| Source | Section | Last successful read |
|---|---|---|
| Hospitality Net | Industry | 2026-10-11 03:19:06 |
| Railway Gazette | Rail | 2026-10-11 03:19:02 |
| Runway Girl Network | Airlines | 2026-10-11 03:19:02 |
| Seatrade Cruise | Cruise | 2026-10-11 03:19:05 |
Feeds whose terms restrict commercial reuse are not read and are not listed here.
Contact
We do not publish an email address (it is a magnet for spam). Use the contact form for corrections, removals, takedown requests or anything else — it reaches us directly and we reply to the address you give.