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Editorial Policy

How we decide what to publish, and what happens when we get it wrong.

Being useful depends on being trusted, so it is worth writing down how the work is actually done.

How a piece gets written

Someone proposes it, someone else checks it, and the figures in it are traced back to where they came from before it goes out.

Corrections

A mistake is fixed on the page and noted underneath it. Quietly editing an error away is worse than the error.

Independence

Anything paid for is labelled as such at the top, and no advertiser sees a piece before it is published.