A news channel for people who stopped watching the news
Standard news is made for your parents. Backspace is made for you — honest stories, every side shown, told the way your feed actually speaks.
Manifesto
Your parents watch the news. You scroll past it.
That's not apathy — it's instinct. You can tell when a broadcast is talking at you instead of with you. So you closed the TV and opened your feed, and now the loudest voice wins.
Backspace exists for the moment after the noise. Like the key on the keyboard: when your head is full of rubbish, you hit backspace, slow down, and think straight.
We tell stories the way they actually happened — clear, unfiltered, and without an agenda. No shouting heads, no agenda tables. Just the story, made for people our age.
Formats
One story. Many shapes.
No two people read the news the same way, so no two Backspace stories look the same. Pick the shape that fits your day.
Shorts
Sixty-second hits that tell you what happened today — no jargon, no filler.
Deep dives
Long-form stories that stay on an issue until it actually makes sense.
Explainers
Confused by a headline? We unpack it, from the first clause to the fine print.
Debates
Two sides, one room, zero scripted talking points.
Street takes
Real conversations with a mic in hand — no filter, no cue cards.
The digest
A weekly reset: everything that mattered this week, nothing that didn't.
Principles
How we work.
- Not biased
- We show the story from every side and let you decide. Our job is to inform you, not to instruct you.
- Transparent
- If we get something wrong, we say so out loud. Every claim points back to where it came from.
- Made for the youth
- Written, shot and edited by people who grew up on the same internet you did.
Apply
Hit backspace with us.
Whether you want to write, shoot, edit or produce — or you're a brand that wants to reach young people honestly — the form takes two minutes.