Policies
Editorial Standards
The rules every GrowthBrief story follows, from source to publication.
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Accuracy first
Numbers, names, dates, and quotes must match the source exactly. When a source is unclear, we say so, or we do not publish. An editor checks a story against its original source before publishing it by hand; a story published with AI is checked against the same publishing rules, and any error found later is corrected.
Sources
- We work from public sources: government press releases, and the RSS feeds of news publishers and regulators. From a feed we use only what the publisher put in it, a title and a summary, and we link to the full article.
- Every story names its source and links to the original, in the Sources box under the story, so you can read it yourself.
- We keep the original text exactly as we found it, next to our version, so any story can be checked later.
Photos
Story photos are free stock photos from Unsplash, credited to the photographer under each one. They illustrate the subject of a story; they are not photos of the event itself. Each photo carries a short description for readers who can't see it, taken from Unsplash and checked by an editor.
Our own words
Stories are rewritten in plain language, not copied. We keep the facts and the meaning of the source, and we do not add claims the source does not make. The "Why it matters" note is analysis, clearly labelled, and kept apart from the facts above it.
A human decides
AI helps us draft (see our AI Policy), but a human editor makes every decision to publish. Nothing appears on GrowthBrief unless an editor chose it.
Fairness and independence
We cover stories because they matter to our readers, never because someone paid or asked us to. See Ethics and Ownership & Funding.
Fixing mistakes
When we get something wrong, we fix it openly. See Corrections.