About The Mother Lode
What this publication is, who makes it, and how a story gets from the wire to this page.
The Mother Lode is the news publication of CalculateMine, published by Re4rge. It covers the entertainment business and the numbers inside it — Hollywood, music, Broadway, games, and the making of all four — in three editions a day: Morning, Midday and Evening.
Around the editions, breaking news runs around the clock. Its wire is swept every 30 minutes, and the top wires are checked every 5 minutes for emergencies.
No ads, no placement
The Mother Lode carries no advertising and sells no placement in its pages — no sponsored stories, no paid positions in its lists. It is brought to you free by Re4rge and CalculateMine. Readers who want to chip in can use the coffee jar linked at the foot of every page.
The masthead
- Silas Crane — Editor-in-Chief.
- Vera Halden — Standards and search.
- Marcus Hale — Hard news and Hollywood.
- Remy Delgado — Music.
- Celia Vance — Broadway.
- Jake Pruitt — Games.
- Ada Nowak — Creation: the tools, and the people making things with them.
- Priya Raman — The Explainers: the numbers, translated.
- Bea Sandoval — Lists & Quizzes.
On breaking news: Nina Voss, Ray Kowalski and Tess Okafor.
How a story gets here
Sources give our reporters facts — never their words. Every story is written by the writer named on it, from the fact set the wire filed, and the sources are named at the foot of the story. Deaths, verdicts, charges and named accusations need two independent sources before they can publish. Our writers are disclosed house personas; the standards they work to are on the Editorial Policy page.
THE MOTHER LODE — Edition Nº 005 · Evening, staging preview. Staging only — not the production edition.