How It Works

When you press "Print My Edition," a lot happens behind the scenes in about 30–60 seconds. Here's the whole process, step by step.

The short version

Imagine you hired a very fast research assistant and a newspaper editor. The assistant spends a few seconds reading dozens of news articles about your chosen topic. Then the editor writes a full newspaper front page based on what the assistant found — with real headlines, real facts, and a personal touch. That's what's happening here, except the assistant and the editor are both an AI called Claude.

You fill in the form

You tell us who the newspaper is for, what topic you'd like covered, and optionally describe some funny fake classified ads to hide in the paper (a little easter egg for whoever reads it closely).

The AI searches the internet

We send your topic to Claude, an AI made by a company called Anthropic. Claude goes out and searches the web — just like you might search Google — looking for the most recent and interesting news stories about your topic. It typically does 5–15 different searches to get a well-rounded picture.

This is called "Phase 1: Research" and usually takes 15–30 seconds.

The AI writes the newspaper

Now Claude switches hats from researcher to newspaper editor. It takes everything it found and writes a full newspaper edition: a big lead story, a couple of secondary articles, a handful of news briefs, and a personal note to the reader. If you asked for funny classified ads, it writes those too.

All the articles are based on real, current news — Claude doesn't make up the facts. But it does write them in that classic newspaper style, with punchy headlines and authoritative prose, like a real broadsheet.

This is "Phase 2: Writing" and takes another 10–20 seconds.

We lay it out like a real newspaper

The articles come back as structured data, and our website arranges them into a classic newspaper layout — with a big masthead at the top (personalized with the reader's name), multi-column text, elegant fonts, and all those little details that make a real newspaper feel like a real newspaper: thin lines between columns, drop caps at the start of articles, small-caps bylines.

This happens almost instantly — it's just formatting.

We save it so it loads fast next time

Once your newspaper has been generated, we save a copy for 6 hours. So if you share the link with someone, or come back to look at it again, it loads instantly instead of taking another minute to generate.

After 6 hours, the next visitor gets a fresh edition with the latest news.

Common Questions

Is the news real?

Yes. Claude searches the actual internet for current news articles and bases everything it writes on what it finds. The headlines, facts, and quotes are drawn from real sources.

What about the classified ads?

Those are completely made up — that's the joke. They're little fictional ads written by the AI based on whatever funny description you gave it. Think of them as inside jokes hidden in the paper.

What is Claude?

Claude is an AI assistant made by Anthropic, a company focused on building safe and helpful AI. Think of it like a very knowledgeable assistant that can read, write, and search the web — but it's software, not a person.

Does it cost money?

Not for you — this is a free personal project. Behind the scenes there is a small cost each time we ask Claude to search the web and write articles, but that's covered by the person who made this.

Who made this?

This was made by Earl, as a small thank-you gift. He used Claude (the same AI that writes the newspaper) to help him build the whole thing.

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