Source policy
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Capital Wire draws on an explicit list of sources rather than open crawling of the web. Each source is registered, classified by type, and given a trust level that tells editors how much verification a claim from it still needs. People make the call on what is solid enough to publish.
Source ranking
In descending order of authority:
- Exchange disclosures and regulatory filings
- Company investor-relations material published by the company itself
- Central bank and government statistical releases
- Established wire services and other newsrooms we treat as secondary
- Everything else, which requires corroboration before it can support a market-moving claim
How we use sources
We prefer official feeds, APIs and pages. We respect robots rules, licences and access controls. We do not scrape behind paywalls or invent access we do not have. Attribution appears on the article when a claim depends on a named source.
Verification
A single uncorroborated secondary report is not enough for a market-moving claim. Where we cannot verify something, we either do not publish it or we state plainly what remains unconfirmed. Editors, not software, make that judgement.
Anonymous sources
Anonymity is granted only where the information is materially in the public interest and the source faces a real risk from attribution. An editor must know the source's identity before publication.
Images and documents
Images follow the rights of the supplier or a clear licence. Company marks used for identification come from official channels when we can obtain them. Documents linked as evidence should be the public filing or page we relied on.