These are the editorial rules our newsroom operates by. They are published so you can hold us to them.
Sources
Every article on the site draws from at least three distinct, attributed outlets. We do not publish stories built on a single source. Where a fact appears in only one of our source outlets, we attribute it inline by name. Where all sources agree on a fact, we present it as fact.
Quotes
Direct quotes appear in quotation marks. The speaker is named and their title or affiliation given. We do not compress or alter quotes for flow. If a quote is paraphrased, the quotation marks come off.
Links
Every article includes at least two links to primary sources: the filing, the report, the press release, the video, the data set, the ruling. We believe a story that cannot survive being read alongside its sources is not a story worth publishing.
Headlines
Headlines must be supportable by the body. We do not write questions we do not answer in the story. We do not write numbers we cannot cite. Clickbait is off-brand.
Balance
On contested issues we steelman each side, attribute positions to the people who hold them, and let the reader decide. Where the dispute is factual, we do not pretend it is value-based. Where the dispute is value-based, we do not pretend it is factual.
Conflicts of interest
Writers disclose conflicts inside the byline or in an italic note at the top of the piece. A staff writer or their household may not write about a company in which they hold shares, a charity on whose board they sit, or a legal case in which they are a party. Advertising and editorial operate in separate reporting lines.
Anonymity and off-the-record
We prefer on-the-record reporting. Where a source's safety, livelihood or legal position is at stake, we grant anonymity and describe the source's position with enough precision that readers can weigh the claim. Off-the-record means not for publication.
AI use
Our newsroom uses an in-house editorial synthesis tool that reads three to five outlets on a cluster and drafts a first pass. Every article is structurally gated (subheadings, attributed blockquotes, lists, labelled Coverage Map) and rejected at publish time if it fails. We do not publish AI-generated images of real people or real events: featured images are editorial stock photos chosen to match the story's visual subject, not to depict what happened.
Plagiarism
Copying another outlet's wording is a firing offence. Our editorial synthesis produces composite prose from multiple sources and is checked against each source on rotation.
Corrections
See the corrections policy.
Last updated: 22 April 2026.