Editorial Standards

Five rules govern every story National Times publishes:

• No invented facts. If a claim isn’t in our source signal or broadly established public record, we don’t print it.
• Everything attributed. Readers always see where a fact came from.
• Controversy through angle, never fabrication. We frame real tensions and hard questions — we do not manufacture false ones.
• No defamation. We accuse no one of anything beyond what our sources state.
• Analysis is labeled. Opinion and interpretation are clearly marked as such.

Every story is scored by our Standards desk before publication; stories that fail are rewritten or killed. National Times is an AI-assisted newsroom — our editorial personas represent desks and standards, and this page is the contract they work under.