A short, plain-language summary of the editorial standards applied to every article on ComeNewsSports. The full version is reviewed annually.
ComeNewsSports treats on-record sourcing as the default. Where a source cannot go on the record, the article explains why and the editor signs off on the publication.
Default: on the record
Every quote and every substantive factual claim is sourced to a named individual or an institutional record. Where a club is the source, the article states which club. Where a player is the source, the article states the player's name and the setting (press conference, mixed zone, interview).
Where attribution is impossible
Where a source cannot be named — for example, a club employee under contractual restriction — the article explains why. The editor reviews the reasoning before publication. Anonymous sourcing is not used to settle a disagreement between named sources.
Speculation and rumour
Speculation is clearly labelled. It does not appear on the homepage, on a results page, or next to a confirmed deal. Where speculation turns into confirmed reporting, the article is rewritten with the confirmed detail and the older speculative version is not silently replaced.
Material claims — a transfer, a result, an injury, a contract — are not published on a single anonymous source. They require either on-record confirmation or two independent corroborating sources.
Two-source rule
A transfer fee, a transfer agreement, an injury diagnosis, a contractual detail, or a managerial change requires either a named source from one of the involved parties, or two independent corroborating sources where neither can be named.
Single-source reporting
Single-source reporting is allowed for non-material colour and context. The reporter flags it as such in the draft, and the editor confirms the source is reliable and consistent.
Verification window
Live scores and results are pulled from a licensed feed and are not re-verified by hand. Everything else is verified before publication, with a defined window for the beat reporter and the editor.
Corrections are dated, noted at the top of the affected article, and logged on the corrections page. We do not silently rewrite published copy.
What counts as a material correction?
A wrong score, scorer, minute, substitution, attendance, transfer fee, contractual detail, or attribution. A typo in a non-load-bearing word is not a material correction and may be fixed without a dated note.
How fast is a correction published?
Material corrections are usually published within two hours of confirmation. Score corrections from the league's official record follow the league's own confirmation window.
Can I challenge a correction?
Yes. The contact page lists the route for challenges. Where a correction is itself challenged and found wanting, we publish a follow-up correction and add a dated note at the top of the article.
Generated images and a small set of routine tools are used in production. Reporting, headlines, analysis and FAQs are written by the editorial desk and reviewed by an editor before publication.
Imagery
Editorial imagery is generated using MiniMax AI under a documented art direction. Imagery is documentary in nature — match photography, training-ground portraits, dressing-room scenes — and avoids identifiable league, club, sponsor or broadcast branding.
Writing
Headlines, match reports, transfer pieces, analysis, FAQs and editorial copy are written by the named reporters on this site. Generative tools are not used to fabricate quotes, results, transfer fees, injury diagnoses or performance statistics.
Routine tooling
Generative tools are used for routine data hygiene — fixture deduplication, table formatting, headline variants for SEO — not for content production. The reporter and the editor remain accountable for every word that publishes.
A short note on the editorial-policy review cycle and the routes available to readers who want to challenge a piece.
The editorial policy is reviewed annually by the editor. Material changes are summarised at the top of this page; the older version is preserved in the page revision history. The policy applies to every piece that goes out under the ComeNewsSports byline, regardless of the reporter's beat or the publication's section. The corrections log on the corrections page carries the history of every material correction published since the desk was founded.
Where a reader thinks a piece falls short of the policy — wrong sourcing, an unattributed claim, an unjustified anonymous attribution, a missing correction — the contact page lists the routes for challenges. The editor reads every challenge. Where a challenge is upheld, the piece is corrected or amended with a dated note and the change is logged on the corrections page. Where a challenge is not upheld, the editor explains why.
The policy is enforced by the editor, not by a separate standards committee. Where the editor themselves is challenged, the response is logged on the corrections page with a dated note and the explanation. The same sourcing rules apply to the editor's own pieces as apply to every other reporter on the desk.