Editorial Policy

How Stories are made, where the facts come from, and what happens when we get one wrong.

Where Stories come from

Full Story reports on events already on the public record. Where a Story draws on reporting first published elsewhere, the originating publication is named in the Story and linked from it. We summarise and explain that reporting; we do not reproduce it.

Accuracy

Facts in a Story come from its sources, not from inference. Where something is disputed, the Story says so rather than picking a side by omission.

Direct quotations are reproduced exactly as the source published them. We do not invent, paraphrase or edit words inside quotation marks, and we do not attribute speech to anyone who did not say it.

Use of automated tools

Full Story uses automated tools to help draft Stories from source material. The facts and quotations in a Story come from the reporting it cites, not from a model, and the checks described above apply to every Story regardless of how it was drafted.

Corrections

A correction is appended to the Story it corrects, carries the date it was made, and is never applied silently. Where an error is serious enough to change what a Story means, the correction says so in plain terms.

To request one, write to the officer named on the Grievance page.

Independence

No advertiser, sponsor or commercial partner sees a Story before publication or influences whether it runs. Advertising, where it appears, is marked as advertising and kept visually distinct from reporting.

Bylines and dates

Every Story carries a byline and a publication date. Where a Story is substantively updated after publication, the update date is shown alongside the original.