Editorial Standards

Methodology

PureSource coverage is built from individually verified factual claims, synthesized from multiple independent reports of the same event. Every article credits the original, primary source behind a fact — the named person, official statement, agency, document, or dataset — and never attributes a fact to another news outlet. Context stays visible and sourcing is transparent.

How a story is produced

Reporting starts with structured research. Our newsroom systems monitor primary and authoritative sources, group reports of the same event together, and extract the individual factual claims behind it along with the source each claim came from. That produces a brief: the set of verified facts, their sources, and the context around them.

A named journalist then takes that brief and does the editorial work. They read the article against its sources, check that each claim is supported by what the source actually says, edit the copy, select and approve the image that runs with the story, and sign it off. Nothing publishes without that sign-off, and the byline names the journalist who gave it. You can see the full roster and each writer's background on our newsroom page.

Sourcing

We credit the origin of a fact, not the outlet that repeated it. Where a claim can be traced to a primary document — a filing, a docket, a dataset, an agency release, a transcript — we link to that document. Quotes are attributed to the person who said them. Articles that draw on material our newsroom added beyond the original report carry a “Background & Sources” block listing those sources so you can check them yourself.

How a fact is weighed

Each extracted fact is scored internally on source agreement, source quality, and how clearly it is attributed in the available reporting. That score decides whether a fact is used, held back, or sent for further checking — it is not shown on the page, because a number beside a sentence tells a reader far less than the sourcing does. Facts that do not clear the bar are not published rather than published with a caveat.

Primary vs supporting facts

Primary facts are the minimum claims needed to understand the event. Supporting facts add context, chronology, or nuance without changing the central story. Separating them lets you see at a glance what the story rests on.

How we use automation

PureSource News is a computer-assisted newsroom. Most of the work behind a story is done by deterministic software: systems that monitor and retrieve source material, group reports of the same event together, match claims against primary records such as court filings, federal register notices, regulatory filings and clinical and research registries, score each claim for corroboration, and withhold material that fails those checks.

Language models are used at specific steps inside that pipeline — pulling candidate facts out of source documents, researching and verifying open questions, drafting the article from the assembled brief of verified facts, and proposing a headline and summary. They are one component of the process, not the process itself, and they operate only on material the verification steps have already accepted.

Automation does not publish. Every article is reviewed and edited by a named journalist who checks the claims against their sources, rewrites the copy where the draft is wrong or unclear, selects and approves the image, and signs the story off under their own byline. A draft that fails that review is not published. Corrections are handled by people, under the policy below.

We disclose this because readers are entitled to know how the journalism they are reading was produced.

What we do not do

Accountability and corrections

Jerry Lively, Senior Editor, is the person accountable for editorial standards at PureSource News. If you believe something we published is wrong, email corrections@puresourcenews.com. Corrections are published openly on our Corrections page with the original claim, the corrected claim, and why the error happened.

Continuous improvement

PureSource prioritizes clarity and traceability. We keep refining extraction, sourcing and editorial review as coverage expands, and we describe changes to our standards on this page.