Editorial policy

This page describes how NewDays chooses, prepares and publishes articles. It describes what actually happens, not an ideal.

Sources

• Every factual statement in an article comes from a source that was opened and read while the article was prepared. Sources are listed at the end of each article with a link, the publisher and the date.
• We prefer primary sources: official statements, laws and court rulings, regulators, statistical agencies, scientific papers and company filings.
• For contested claims we look for confirmation from a second, independent source. Several outlets reprinting the same wire report count as one source.
• A company’s or government’s own announcement is treated as a claim by that party. Articles say “the company said” rather than presenting it as established fact.
• We do not publish rumours, or allegations that rest on a single unnamed source.

What we do not do

• We do not invent facts, figures, quotes, witnesses or interviews.
• We do not have correspondents and do not claim to have been present at events.
• We do not label older events as breaking or live.
• We do not present a general photograph as a photograph of a specific event. Captions say what a picture shows and, where it matters, when it was taken.

Dates

Each article shows the event date and, separately, the date NewDays published it. Articles about events that happened more than a week before publication are labelled “From the archive”. If an article is changed in substance after publication, an “Updated” date is added.

When a story has developed since the event, the later developments are given in a separate, dated “Update” box rather than being mixed into the account of the original event.

Approval

Drafts are prepared with AI assistance (see the AI policy). Publication is the editor’s decision: an approval is recorded for a specific version of the headline, text, sources and image, and only an approved version can be published. If the text changes, it must be approved again.

The 50 archive articles the site opened with were approved and released as one set. They were prepared and checked against their sources with AI assistance; the editor did not read each one line by line before release. NewDays has no independent professional fact-checking department, and we do not claim one. Errors are possible; when we find them, we correct them openly.

Images

Photographs come from sources whose terms allow reuse, mainly Wikimedia Commons files under Creative Commons or public-domain terms. The author and licence are credited under each image. When no suitable image exists, the article is published without one.

Advertising

Advertising and sponsored placements are labelled and visually separated from articles. Advertisers have no say over editorial content.

Corrections

See the corrections page.

Last updated 9 October 2026