How we report
The practice behind each item: what has to be true before it is filed, how sources are treated, and what happens when we get something wrong.
What gets filed
An item is filed when something has happened and can be stated in a sentence: a decision taken, a figure published, a filing made, an outage confirmed. Analysis, forecasts and commentary are not filed to the wire. Neither is the absence of news — we do not file that a company declined to comment unless the refusal is itself the development.
Headlines state the event and nothing more. They carry no adjectives of importance, no rhetorical questions, and no framing the item does not support.
Sourcing
On the record is the default. Anonymity is granted only where the information is of clear public interest and the source faces a concrete risk in speaking — not as a convenience for the source and not as a favour to a press office.
Where a source is unnamed, the item says why and describes their position closely enough to weigh: a person who saw the filing, an official briefed on the decision. Descriptions are never inflated to imply more access than the source has.
We do not agree to review quotes before publication, and we do not accept information conditioned on a particular framing. If a briefing comes with those conditions attached, the condition itself is reported.
Verification before filing
Speed is the point of a wire, but the threshold does not move with it. Different kinds of item clear different bars, and the bar is fixed in advance rather than argued about under deadline.
| Item | Required before filing |
|---|---|
| Official action | Primary document, or the issuing body's own channel |
| Company statement | Statement in full, plus the filing where one exists |
| Market figure | Exchange or venue data, timestamped |
| Reported claim | Two independent sources, neither briefed by the other |
| Attack or breach | Confirmation by the affected party or a named investigator |
| Casualty figure | Named authority; never aggregated from social posts |
Where a claim cannot clear its bar but is already circulating, the item states who is making the claim, that it is unverified, and what would confirm it. It does not repeat the claim as fact in the headline.
Numbers
Figures are quoted as published, with the source and the period they cover. Percentages are given alongside the base they are drawn from, because a change of 40% means nothing without it. Currency figures state the currency, and converted amounts state the rate and the date.
We do not round in the headline and give the exact figure in the text; the two always match. Where an operator revises its own number, the item is revised and both figures remain visible in the revision history.
Confidential material
If you have documents or information you believe should be public, start with a message that contains no sensitive material — just enough for a reporter to understand the subject — and we will move the conversation to a channel appropriate to the risk.
- Do not use a device, account or network belonging to your employer. That is the single most common way sources are identified.
- Do not send material through a system that logs recipients on your side, and do not print or export documents from a monitored system.
- First contact: contact@avorz.com. Treat it as unencrypted and say nothing sensitive in it.
- Encrypted and anonymous submission channels, with the fingerprints needed to verify them, are published in the newsroom's key listing and confirmed to you by a reporter before anything is sent.
We do not identify confidential sources to anyone outside the reporting desk, and we do not hold identifying material longer than the reporting requires. What we cannot promise is control over a channel you chose before contacting us.
Automation
Machines monitor filings, exchange feeds and official channels, and they alert the desk. They do not file. Every item on the wire has been read and released by a person, including items whose entire content is a published number.
Machine translation is used to read foreign-language sources; a quotation translated by machine is checked by a person before it appears in an item. No item is generated from another publication's report without independent confirmation.
Embargoes and briefings
An embargo is honoured once accepted, and accepted only where the material is provided in advance for accuracy rather than for coordination. We do not accept embargoes that extend past the moment another outlet is free to publish, and we do not accept them retroactively — material sent under an embargo we never agreed to is not bound by it.
Background briefings are attended, but nothing said in one is filed unless it can be confirmed independently or the briefer agrees to be described.
Conflicts
Reporters do not hold positions in the companies or instruments their desk covers, do not accept payment, travel or hospitality from parties they report on, and do not advise them. A reporter with a personal connection to a subject hands the item to another desk rather than disclosing and continuing.
Where the publication itself has a commercial relationship with the subject of an item, the item says so in its own text.
When we are wrong
Two different things happen to an item after filing, and they are not interchangeable. A revision adds or updates information as a story develops; it appears in the item with its own timestamp. A correction means we published something untrue; it is flagged at the top of the item and never quietly folded into a revision.
Items are not deleted to fix an error. Where an item must be withdrawn entirely, its address keeps returning a notice explaining why, so that anyone who linked to it can see what happened.
To report an error: contact@avorz.com, with the item address and what specifically is wrong.