Editorial standards

These are the rules PressTemps publishes by. They are the same rules our production system is held to, and they are written down here so you can hold us to them too.

Accuracy

Every factual claim in a PressTemps story comes from reporting we have read. We do not publish a story that cannot be verified against at least two independent sources. Where sources disagree on a number, we say which figure came from where rather than picking one and presenting it as settled. Where a detail is genuinely unknown, we say it is unknown.

We do not invent quotes, statistics, people, documents or events. Quotes appear only when a source we can cite reported them, and they are attributed to whoever actually said them.

Sourcing and outbound links

Every article carries links to the material it rests on, woven into the text rather than dumped at the end. Wherever a primary document exists — legislation, a regulatory filing, a court opinion, a peer-reviewed paper, an official statistical release, an agency or company statement — we link to that document rather than to someone else’s summary of it.

Most articles also carry a short sources list naming the reporting we relied on. Links to other publications, including outlets outside this site, are editorial citations: we link because the reading is useful, not because of any arrangement.

Bylines

PressTemps stories carry desk bylines — the Washington desk, the world desk, the business desk and so on. We do not publish under invented human names, and we do not attach a real person’s name to a story they did not write.

AI-assisted production

PressTemps is an AI-assisted newsroom. Research and drafting are automated, working to the contract set out on this page. This does not lower the factual bar: automated production is exactly why the sourcing, verification and attribution rules above are explicit and enforced on every story rather than left to habit.

Images

We publish photographs only where we hold a licence to do so. In practice that means openly licensed photography with the photographer credited, Creative Commons images with the author and licence named, and public-domain or official imagery from government agencies, research bodies and press offices with the organisation credited.

We do not republish wire-service or news-agency photography, and we do not use watermarked previews. Attribution is not a licence. Where a photograph is illustrative rather than a picture of the specific event or people in the story, the caption says so — and where no properly licensed image exists, the story runs without one.

Corrections

If a story is wrong, tell us. Send the URL, what is wrong, and how you know. Substantive corrections are made to the story and noted; typographical fixes are made silently. We would rather be corrected than be wrong twice.

Contact details are on the contact page. More about how the site works is on the newsroom page.