Editorial standards
The rules every story on this site must satisfy before it is published — most of them enforced by the software, not just by good intentions.
Last updated 10 September 2026
1. We write our own stories
We monitor public news feeds to know what is happening. We then report the story ourselves. We never reuse another publication's sentences, structure or ordering. Facts are free to report; the way another journalist expressed them belongs to them. Our editor runs an automatic check against the source and blocks drafts that track its wording too closely.
2. Two independent sources
No claim is published as established fact on the strength of a single source. Where a story does rest on one outlet's reporting, we attribute it in the text throughout. An article cannot be published here without at least two cited sources — this is a hard check, not a guideline.
3. Quotations
Quotes are short, exact, in quotation marks, attributed to the speaker and to the outlet that obtained them, and linked to the original. Over-long verbatim passages are flagged before publication.
4. Images
We never publish another outlet's or a wire agency's photographs. Every image is our own, licensed with the licence recorded, in the public domain, or an AI-generated illustration labelled as such on the page. We do not generate images of real identifiable people, and we never present an illustration as a photograph of an event. Every image carries alt text.
5. Allegations and fairness
Allegations are attributed to the body making them and described as allegations until there is a formal finding. Where we report a serious accusation against a person or organisation, we approach them for comment and say in the article whether they responded.
6. Corrections
Errors are corrected in public and dated. See the corrections policy.
7. AI use
AI tools may assist with research, structuring and illustration. Every published article is written, checked and signed off by a human editor who is accountable for it. AI-generated images carry a visible label.
8. Independence
Advertisers have no influence over our journalism and never see an article before publication. Any sponsored or affiliate content is clearly marked and is never presented as editorial reporting.
9. How we source headlines
We poll publicly offered RSS feeds and public pages only. We respect robots.txt, we never scrape past a paywall or a login, and we identify ourselves in our requests. Headlines we collect are an internal assignment list; they are never published as our own.