Editorial Standards

Accuracy

All content must be factually accurate at publication time. Required verification covers names, titles, dates, ticker symbols, financial figures, technical specifications, quotations, and company details against primary sources.

Direct quotes must reproduce source wording exactly with clear attribution. Quote fabrication, invention, and compositing of multiple quotes into one statement are prohibited. When working from a source article, we preserve factual claims, avoid introducing errors through summarisation, and clearly attribute claims to their original sources.

Special precision applies to ticker symbols, financial figures, market data, regulatory references, and dates of corporate events.

The full verification process, including the two-pass QC architecture and the Knowledge Graph verification layer, is on the verification and fact-checking policy page.

Attribution and Sourcing

Every article acknowledges and records its primary source material, which includes but is not limited to regulatory news announcements, filings, broker notes, earnings releases, data feeds, with clear attribution where required. Where multiple outlets cover the same development, we credit the organisation that broke the news first.

Default sourcing is named. Coverage drawn from a named broker analyst, named executive, named institutional investor, or named regulator carries that attribution. Unnamed sources are used sparingly and on specific terms, including the special case of market-sensitive information ahead of regulatory disclosure. Full standards on the sources policy page.

Fairness and Balance

Straight news coverage presents facts without editorial opinion, includes relevant perspectives on contested issues, and avoids language favouring one side. Subjects of critical coverage are offered an opportunity to respond. Fairness is not false balance; we report reality, not artificial equivalence.

Language and Tone

We maintain a professional editorial register. We avoid:

• Profanity and gratuitously sensationalised language
• Discriminatory references and language that fails to respect how individuals identify themselves
• Insider jargon that signals club membership without serving comprehension
• Editorialising and ramping or talking-down framing in straight news coverage

Plain English explanations of technical concepts keep the publication accessible to retail readers regardless of background.

Headlines and Presentation

Headlines must accurately reflect article content. Clickbait, overstatement, and misleading implication have no place in our coverage. Images carry proper attribution; manipulation that changes meaning is prohibited. Where AI-generated images are used, they are properly labelled.

Content Types

We distinguish between:

• News reporting — straight factual coverage of corporate developments, regulatory news, and market events
• Analysis — context and explanation built on top of the source material, with the analytical layer clearly identified
• Opinion — clearly labelled, attributed to a named human author, and not presented as institutional position
• Breaking news — published with timestamps and updated as the story develops; updates and corrections are handled differently

Technology-Specific Standards

AI-assisted Newsroom content carries the Tickstock Newsroom collective byline and is subject to the same standards as any other content. Every piece of content is supervised, edited and authored by human editors, regardless of generation origins. The Tickstock Newsroom byline does not lower the bar. Full editorial accountability sits with the founder/publisher and the editor-in-the-loop methodology as documented on the AI disclosure policy page; meanwhile, the technical platform detail is on the technology and AI policy page.

Updates and Corrections

Updates add new information to developing stories with timestamps. Corrections fix errors. The two are handled distinctly. Major revisions to a story may warrant a new article rather than a re-edited one. Full process and the live corrections log on the corrections policy page.

Special Situations

We respect embargoes on their terms. Where conflicting sources exist, we present the disagreement fairly and attribute claims to their sources. Coverage of competitor publications is held to the same standards as any other coverage subject.

Enforcement

Editorial standards are enforced through the platform's quality control and verification systems before publication and through internal review afterwards. Recurring sources of error are addressed at the platform level rather than patched article by article. Readers can help by flagging errors via corrections@tickstock.io; substantive editorial feedback goes to editorial@tickstock.io.