The Daily Dossier at aboutbasquecountry.eus
A structured look at how the world is talking about the Basques.
Every day, somewhere in the world, someone talks about the Basques.
- It’s a cultural chronicle in Buenos Aires.
- It’s a financial paper in New York.
- It’s a scientific journal in Berlin.
- It’s a historical review in Mexico City.
Most of these news items pass by unnoticed. However, they join into the global flow of information and influence how millions of people perceive our reality.
On April 28, 1937, George L. Steer reported, in the New York Times, about the bombing of Guernica. That international chronicle changed history. The news about us can change history.
The Daily Dossier arises out of that awareness.
Not to react.
To understand.
About Basque Country has been observing the Basque reality as reflected in international media for almost 16 years. Over all this time, we’ve selected and commented on relevant pieces, though far fewer than we have found and would have liked to, and we realized it just wasn’t enough.
We needed to taken another step.
We needed not only to comment on news, but also build a system that allowed for it to be organized, classified, and archived in a structured way.
So, we’ve spent the past year thinking about and drawing up a system to help us do just that, based on our experience and our criteria, and supported by automated search and selection systems, with some help from AI systems.
We believe that we have to look all over the world to see how we’re perceived, because peoples are not just what they are, they are also, to quite a large degree, how the world see them.
What is the Daily Dossier?
The Daily Dossier is a systematic, classified, and analyzed compilation of foreign news items about the Basques and the world of the Basques.
It collects articles published outside Spain and France which mention:
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- Basque people
- Institutions
- Companies
- Basque centers in the world
- Cultural, scientific, or economic projects
- Political debates
- Sociel processes linked to the Basque nation
The news items are organized thematically and accompanied by an editorial summary to better understand theri context and relevance.
It’s not a matter of just knowing what’s been published.
It’s also a matter of udnerstanding how we’re being presented and which narrative frameworks are being constructed.
The Daily Dossier works as our own always-online monitoring system combining technology, artificial intelligence, and human judgment.
The process includes:
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- Systematic detection of international news items.
- Editorial filtering.
- Thematic classification.
- Grouping by dominant theme.
- Composition of structured summaries.
- Final review before publication.
Every day, hundreds of potential news items are analyzed. Only those which meet our editorial criteria are added to the Dossier.
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- We select.
- We contrast.
- We organize.
- We make it coherent.
The goal is not to accumulate links. It is to build a useful archive that is consistent over time.
Part of a program with more than 100 scripts. Drawn up by us, for us.
More than current events: structured memory
Each daily edition is integrated into an accumulative archive that allows us to:
- Detect trends
- Identify narrative frameworks
- Observe the evolution of the international image of the Basque nation
Scattered information creates noise.
Structured information creates understanding.
Accumulated understanding creates strategic capacity.
The Dossier is not just immediate current events: it is a structured snapshot of the present designed to be remembered in the future.
What it is not:
The Daily Dossier is not just an automatic aggregator that simply collects headlines.
It is an independent editorial work that detects, selects, and structures international information from our own coherent perspective.
It does ont seek to reflect current events passively.
It seeks to create context and persepective.
How it can be accessed:
The Daily Dossier published on aboutbasquecountry.eus offers different levels of access:
Public access
General summary of the day’s news organized by categories.
Free registration
Access to headlines and summaries classified by thematic blocks.
Support subscription
This offers complete access: headlines, expanded summaries, references to media, countries, and direct links to the original source.
This model allows us to sustain the project and guarantee its continuity and editorial independence.
Key information:
- Thousands of media outlets are reviewed in seven languages: Spanish, English, Portuguese, French, German, and Italian (list to be enlarged).
- The web dossier is published in Basque, Spanish, and English.
- There is a .pdf version available in Basque, Spanish, English, and French.
- Support systems based on AI are used, always under human supervision.
Network and collaboration
The articles about Basque Centers and “the world and Basques” are freely accessible and and sent out weekly to Basque Centers around the world, thanks to our collaboration with the Limako Arantzazu Euzko Etxea.
We also ask for the international community’s support to find news items that may have slipped through our search systems.
With participation and constancy, the Daily Dossier’s goal is to build a common archive that reflects the real and current aspects of Basques in the world more faithfully.