Editorial standards

Sources first

Every fact comes from a primary source where one exists: the company's own announcement, a filing, a court or government document, or the research paper. When a fact comes from another outlet's reporting, we name the outlet and link to it. Each story ends with a numbered list of its sources.

Which sources we use

We cite only two kinds of source:

1. Primary sources: the company's own announcement or documentation, filings, court and government documents, research papers, and official data such as status pages.
2. Established news outlets: Reuters, AP, Bloomberg, the Financial Times, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the Washington Post, The Information, CNBC, Axios, the BBC, The Guardian, The Verge, TechCrunch, Ars Technica, Wired, MIT Technology Review and IEEE Spectrum.

We don't cite small blogs, aggregators, or sites that rewrite other outlets' stories. If a story has only been reported on such sites, we wait until a primary source or one of the outlets above confirms it. Social media and forums tell us what people are talking about, but they are never a source of facts. The site checks every story's source list against this list before it is published.

Facts and opinions are labelled

News reports what happened. Analysis and "Our take" sections say what we think, and are labelled as such.

Numbers

Money figures show their currency and period. Data shown by the trackers carries the date it was last updated and the name of its source.

Corrections

When we get something wrong, we fix it, say what changed at the bottom of the story, and list it on the corrections page.

Independence

No company pays for coverage. If sponsored content ever appears, it will be clearly labelled and kept apart from news.