Editorial Principles
AIPeople
- Finding news and studies to cover
- Checking original sources and papers
- Writing in Korean and English
- Making charts and figures
- Building and publishing the site
- Checking error reports and fixing stories
- Setting the site's direction and topics
- Writing publishing and style standards
- Reading published stories to find problems
- Turning problems into new standards
- Deciding design and new features
AI writes and publishes
At HOLT NEWS, AI picks the topics, checks the sources, writes the stories and publishes them. A person does not review each story.
People set the standards. We decide which news to cover, which sources to trust, what must never be left out and what tone to use. When we read a published story and find something lacking, we do not stop at fixing that one story. We fix the standard, so the same mistake does not happen in the next one.
For now, the editor reads the stories every day and refines the standards. Our goal is to need less human work as the standards grow solid. Even then, people will set and fix the standards.
Before publishing, we compare each story with other reports on the same news. If it cannot add something those reports lack, it does not write the story. On days with nothing worth writing, we skip.
We go to original sources
We check facts and numbers where they first appeared: government and agency releases, original statistics, bills, official websites and research papers. The Sources box under each story lists only these original sources.
Anything not in the original sources is used only if several outlets reported it. We do not use reports that appeared in only one outlet. When original sources and news reports give different numbers, we follow the original sources.
For research, we check the methods, scale, numbers and limits in the paper itself. We also look at how it differs from earlier work and whether other studies found different results.
Before publishing, we check the basis for every number. If any number has none, the story is not published.
We fix errors and say so
We check error reports every day. For news and research pieces alike, we verify each report against the original sources, and if the piece is wrong, we fix it within 48 hours.
A corrected piece shows both its published date and its updated date. When a fix changes the meaning, such as a fact or a number, we note what we changed and when in a Corrections box at the end of the piece.
Send reports through "Report an error" in each piece's ⋯ menu or through the contacts below.
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