The journalist who never filed a story. (Until now.)

I'm Jonis Shahidi. I hold a journalism degree and exactly zero newsroom bylines. Life had other plans — a move across the world, a long detour, a different everything. But journalism school leaves you with one stubborn habit that never wears off: verify first, publish second.

Propaganda isn't a textbook concept to me. I've seen up close what it does — how it works on smart, decent people until they defend things they'd never believe on their own. And I've watched the same machinery go global and get an algorithm upgrade: feeds that reward outrage over accuracy, headlines engineered for your blood pressure, "news" that stopped meaning "what happened."

Worth To Note is my answer. Not by shouting louder than the noise — by reading through it. All week I go through the stories, the spin, and the sludge, checking what's real and what's manufactured. Most of it doesn't survive the read.

What survives gets the sticker. That's the whole system: if a story wears the sticker, it means it actually happened, it actually matters, and it's actually worth your five minutes. Every Tuesday, you get the five stories that earned it — each with a plain summary of what happened and one honest line on why it's worth noting.

No propaganda. No panic. No thousand-word wind-ups. Just a trained skeptic reading the news the way it was supposed to be read — so you don't have to.