EDITORIAL STANDARDS
Our standards
These are the rules every story is filed under. They are short on purpose: a standard nobody can recite is a standard nobody applies at eleven at night.
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Good news still needs two sourcesNothing runs on a press release. If a claim can be counted, we ask for the count and publish where it came from.
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We name who paidSponsored content is labelled in the same size type as the headline, and never written by the newsroom.
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No anonymous praiseWe grant anonymity to protect people from harm, never to let an official compliment themselves.
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Numbers get a dateEvery figure carries the period it covers and the body that produced it, so it can be checked later.
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Corrections are permanentWe do not silently edit. Every change of substance appears in the public log with a timestamp.
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Sources see nothing before publicationWe check facts with people. We never send drafts, headlines or photos for approval.
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