Ethics Policy
American News Cycle's ethics policy covers sourcing, attribution, conflicts, corrections, and the separation of news and opinion.
Accuracy And Attribution
Articles should identify where factual claims come from and should link to source material when available. When a fact is based on another outlet's reporting, the outlet should be credited rather than treated as original reporting.
Headlines, social copy, image captions, and structured data should match the article body. We avoid adding claims to metadata that are not visible to readers on the page.
Conflicts And Independence
Writers and editors should avoid assignments where personal, financial, or political relationships would reasonably call independence into question. If a potential conflict is relevant to reader trust, it should be disclosed or the assignment should be reassigned.
Opinion writing may take a clear point of view, but it should not conceal material facts, misrepresent sources, or blur a reported claim into a verified conclusion.
Corrections And Reader Trust
When credible correction requests identify factual errors, editors should review the claim, check the supporting source, and update the article when warranted.
Material corrections should be handled transparently so readers can understand what changed and why.