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EDITORIAL STANDARDS

The source outranks the sentence.

A compact brief still carries a long chain of responsibility: source, fact, claim, visual, review, approval, publication.

Material news only

The monitor may find nothing worth publishing. Silence is accepted. A story must clear deterministic filtering, source authority, direct relevance, timeliness, novelty, evidence, and editorial-risk checks before a production job exists.

Source and fact discipline

Every public factual sentence is mapped to verified fact IDs and exact source records. Targets remain targets. Forecasts remain forecasts. Company statements remain attributed. Credible conflicts are displayed or block publication.

AI assistance

The default workflow is human-triggered ChatGPT Pro through a private Custom GPT and supported Actions, with manual ZIP exchange as a fallback. Source text is untrusted reference data, never instructions. The site independently validates the returned package, numbers, dates, citations, files, disclosures, and 900-character brief limit.

Writing and voice

The house voice is compact, muscular, concrete, rhythmic, unsentimental, and fact-led. It may expose industrial and geopolitical pressure without hype. It does not imitate or name a living author, manufacture quotations, sensationalize, or offer investment recommendations.

Visual evidence

Data-heavy graphics are constructed from verified facts and always have an accessible HTML equivalent. Generated atmospheric imagery is labeled, non-evidentiary, and never the only place a fact appears. Every public visual needs independent factual and visual/brand review on its exact stored bytes.

Human authority

A named authenticated editor must approve and publish. Distinct reviewers cover factual integrity and visual/brand quality. A failed or superseded review cannot be hidden by a later file upload.

Corrections

Substantive reports are logged, reviewed against the source packet, and preserved with their disposition. Material errors are corrected promptly and the article should state what changed. Submit a correction or source here.