How we report

Three tiers, on every claim

Most publications hand you a confident paragraph and leave you to guess which half is established fact and which half is someone's assertion. We label it instead.

Established means two sources that are not aligned with each other, or a primary document from the body concerned, or instrument data — a price, a rate, an official series. We state it plainly.

Contested means the sources genuinely disagree. You get both accounts, named, and what evidence would settle it. We do not average two claims into a third one nobody made.

Asserted means single-source, anonymous, or carried only by outlets aligned with one side. We attribute it and we never state it as fact.

The writer is never its own fact-checker

A reporter drafts strictly from the evidence gathered; a verifier from a different model family re-derives every claim and assigns its tier; an adversarial reviewer then attacks the result and may only ever lower a tier, never raise one. A managing editor runs a gate that fails closed: no established claim without the sources to justify it, no contested claim without a resolution path.

Where the evidence comes from

Central banks, statistical agencies, regulators, exchanges and official series, plus a worldwide sweep that surfaces the same event as carried by outlets in different countries and languages. When a story is being carried by only one side, that is itself reported. Nothing behind a paywall is scraped; we use publishers' own feeds and official interfaces.

Corrections

When we get something wrong we publish the correction against the article rather than quietly editing it. A record that cannot be checked is not a record.

What we will not do

We do not give investment advice. We do not tell you to buy or sell anything. And we do not let a company connected to this publication appear in it without saying so — see ownership and interests.