Costs Desk
Money and estimates
Quotes, ranges and the line items that move once news literacy and verification is under way.
News Cod
News literacy in practice: verifying a claim, reading a source, spotting a manipulated image, and knowing when the honest answer is that nobody knows yet.
Not yet publishing. What this covers, and who covers it, is set out below.
The desks
Each desk is an editorial team with its own beat, not an individual writer. Bylines name the desk, and our structured data identifies it as an organisation.
Practice Desk
How the work gets done
Method, sequence and the decisions that shape news cod before anyone spends money.
Standards Desk
Rules and obligations
Requirements, terms and the paperwork that decides whether the work stands up.
How this works
Written for the person deciding
How to tell if it is true Pieces are written for someone weighing a real decision, not for someone selling them one.
Figures carry their source
Anything with a number attached states where it came from and when it was collected. Where the trade disagrees with itself, we say so rather than picking a side quietly.
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What should we cover first?
The running order is not fixed yet. If there is a question you have had to answer the hard way, the editor would like to hear it — it is the most useful thing you can send a publication that has not started.