Roundups

Drafted by Sourcebase from defined collections, then reviewed and edited by our journalists.

Who does each step

Sourcebase gathers the sources and writes a draft. An editor checks it, revises it and publishes it.

Every piece is drafted from a fixed collection of source documents and checked against them before it publishes.

01 — Ingest. Source material lands in a Sourcebase collection: filings, dockets, transcripts, and the records they reference. The collection is what the reporting is drawn from, and nothing outside it can be cited.
02 — Draft. An automated reporter drafts from that collection alone. It cannot cite a document that is not in it, and every claim carries the page, paragraph or timestamp it came from.
03 — Review. Each citation is opened and read against the sentence attached to it. Claims that do not survive that check are cut rather than softened.
04 — Publish. The article ships with its sources listed. Where the record is thin, the piece says so and stops there instead of reaching past what the documents support.

We do not paraphrase a document we have not read, and we do not publish a claim with no page behind it. A story that cannot be sourced does not run.

If a source does not support the sentence attached to it, that is a correction and it is fixed in place with a dated note.