Editorial standards
How The Sourcing Herald researches, sources, checks and corrects its reporting.
Sources
Every factual claim in an article is linked to a numbered source listed at the end of the article, with the publisher, the publication date where available, and the date we retrieved it. We prefer official and first-party sources: marketplace announcements and help pages, government and customs authorities, standards bodies and company newsrooms. Trade press is used to discover stories; facts are confirmed against primary sources wherever possible.
We do not publish invented quotations, statistics, prices or product features. Where information is not published, comparison tables say so.
How articles are produced
Our research and drafting are assisted by AI. Each article goes through research from retrieved sources, drafting, a claim-by-claim check against those sources, automated checks on figures, repetition and duplication, and review before publication. Automated checks reduce errors but do not guarantee accuracy.
Images
Images are, in order of preference: screenshots of the official pages we cite, openly licensed photographs with their licence and credit, press images supplied for media use, charts drawn from the cited data, and editorial illustrations generated in our house style. Generated illustrations never depict data, products or interfaces as if they were real. Every image carries its credit or source.
Comparisons
Articles about a company connected to the publication carry a disclosure. Comparisons use published information, recognise competitors' genuine advantages and mark unavailable information clearly.
Updates and corrections
Articles show when they were published, last updated and last verified. Factual errors are corrected and the article’s updated date changes.