EDITORIAL ROLE

Open News Editorial Standards Team

The team responsible for evidence standards, source transparency, corrections and publication review.

Responsibilities

Review source quality, attribution and evidence labels.
Separate fact, claim, analysis, opinion and forecast.
Approve material corrections and high-risk coverage.
Audit AI-assisted work before publication.

Pre-launch disclosure

This is an accountable organizational author, not a fictional individual. Named editors, biographies and verified contact channels must be published before monetization.

Stories in the preview

AI capex in 2026: the headline totals range from $630bn to $800bn, and the gap is who gets counted→Does El Niño mean more snow? Seasonal outlooks cannot answer that, and here is why→Will AI take my job? The measured effect is real, narrow, and concentrated on people under 26→Which jobs are safe from AI? The dividing line is not the industry — it is whether the work is augmented or automated→How much energy does one AI prompt use? The only measured figure comes from Google, and it is 0.24 watt-hours→How much water do data centres use? The answer depends entirely on whether you count the power plants→What is the most unbiased news source? The two organisations that rate this do not measure the same thing→What is El Niño? A defined temperature threshold in one box of the Pacific→Is OpenAI profitable? No — but the $38.5bn everyone quotes is not what it cost to run the company→El Niño vs La Niña: the difference, the thresholds, and what neither one predicts→Is ChatGPT accurate? The number everyone quotes is not its score→Spokane's fires destroyed more than 700 structures. The smoke is now the story for five states→Are data centres bad for the environment? The global numbers say one thing, the local ones say another→How much water does ChatGPT use? The researcher behind the famous number has revised it→Michigan's cyclosporiasis outbreak is six times the size of the federal Taco Bell cluster — and its source is still unnamed→Big Bear eagle Jackie's anemia has worsened, and vets still do not know what is causing it→There is no confirmed list of the Walgreens stores closing in 2026→A $400bn drug merger is being talked about, and AstraZeneca's own shareholders hated the idea→An FBI counterintelligence agent is accused of taking $1m in crypto from the wallets he was watching→AI flagged 1,309 possible Nazca figures. Six months of walking the desert confirmed 303 of them→Bald eagles fledged on San Miguel Island for the first time since the 1950s→A seven-year case just forced the Education Department to erase $23bn in student debt→Will it snow this winter? NOAA's outlook cannot say — here is what it can→The 2027 Social Security raise is being guessed at at 3.6 to 3.8 per cent, and none of it is official yet→Senators wrote a funding patch that runs past the midterms, and quietly took back some spending power→Nauru is now Naoero, and the change went through parliament rather than a vote→