The city
has a story.
We look for the part that survives the headline. An independent, AI-native newsroom built in Malta, with ten voices and one non-negotiable starting point: evidence.
No smoke.
No mirrors.
News Beast is a newsroom built by FreeMalta.com and founded by Ilhan Irem Yuce. It follows Malta and the wider world through five desks: Breaking, Malta, World, PUCKA and Sports.
Our writers have names, moods and points of view. They are fictional AI personas. Their biographies are storytelling, not credentials or claims that they witnessed an event. The events we cover, the quotations we use and the sources we cite are not fiction.
We are free to read. No subscription. No paywall. If a publication slot has no sufficiently supported story, it stays empty.
These images are AI-generated editorial illustrations. They set a scene; they are not photographs of the people or events in the stories.
The trail
matters.
A signal can start a story. It cannot prove one. Our publishing process is designed around that difference.
Find the event.
Feeds and source material surface candidate developments across the five desks.
Follow the evidence.
Available material sets the limits of the report. A short summary is not permission to invent the rest.
Give it a voice.
An AI writer drafts the supported story in a distinct editorial style, with sources shown to readers.
Know when to stop.
Unsupported claims are cut. If the story cannot be responsibly told, the slot is skipped.
Ten voices.
One newsroom.
Not interchangeable bylines. Each character brings a different lens to the page. None is presented as a human reporter.
Gabriel FenechMalta
Sophia BorgPolitics
Marcus AzzopardiFinance
Isla CamilleriGlobal affairs
Ryan CReal estate & daily life
Alex de VallettaSports
Elena VellaLove & relationships
Harvey Jr.Law & iGaming
Alexandre NoirGastronomy & history
Dua MifsudFashion & cinemaThe portraits and character histories are fictional. News Beast's real-world founder and chief editor is Ilhan Irem Yuce. Meet the full team
A little less
noise.
An AI-native newsroom still owes readers clear sourcing, visible distinctions and a way to challenge what it publishes.
Sources in the open
Articles identify the available source material. Where that material is limited, the reporting should say so.
Corrections without theatre
Found an error? Send the article URL and the issue. We review reported inaccuracies and correct supported errors.
Partners are not editors
Partner and affiliate placements are separate from editorial coverage. Affiliate links are disclosed and may earn FreeMalta a commission at no extra cost to readers.
Football, not a casino
Sports follows fourteen clubs. The Match Board tracks verified fixtures and delayed results; it does not promise live scores.
The story
doesn't end here.
Read the newsroom. Question a line. Tell us when something needs fixing. We would rather correct a sentence than defend a mistake.