Editorial Standards & Ethics

787daily publishes two kinds of news, and every story says which one it is. These are the rules we hold both to. Related pages: Corrections, How we work, Ownership & funding and About.

Two Kinds of Story

Summaries of other outlets' reporting. Most of our news is a short English summary of a story first reported in Spanish by a Puerto Rico newsroom. These stories say "via" and the outlet's name under the headline, and end with a Source box that links to the original and says plainly: the reporting is theirs. We never present an outlet's reporting as our own, and we never reproduce an article in full.

Our own reporting. Some stories are 787daily's own: analysis built from public records and official data (water, power, contracts, earthquakes, the weekend outlook) and longer pieces we report ourselves. These are labelled "787 Daily · Original analysis" or carry the byline "By 787 Daily", and they link to the data and the coverage they draw on. "Our report" and similar wording is used only for this kind of story.

Bylines and Dates

Every story shows the date it was published, and the date it was last updated when it has changed. Summaries carry the name of the outlet that did the reporting; our own pieces carry the byline "787 Daily". We do not use individual reporter bylines because 787daily is a small, independent operation whose work is produced and checked as a desk, as described on How we work.

Accuracy and Verification

• Faithful, not creative. A summary says what the original reported. We do not add opinion, speculation or facts that are not in the source.
• Checked against the source. Every summary is checked for faithfulness to the original before it is published; one that fails is held back, not published.
• Too short to summarize honestly is not stretched. When an outlet's text is only a short opening (a paywalled story, for example), we do not pad it into an article; it runs only as a clearly labelled short brief, and only after a person approves it.
• Our own figures are sourced. In our own reporting, every figure is attributed to the agency or record it comes from, linked where it is public, and the piece says what is not known. Data from a weak or old source is used only when another source confirms it.
• What a source announced, not what we cannot see. We report what an agency or company announced as an announcement, not as something we observed.

Ethics and Independence

• Credit the reporting. Every summary names its outlet and links to the original, so readers and credit reach the newsroom that did the work.
• Independent. No outlet, government body, company or advertiser approves or pays for our coverage. Who owns and funds the site is on Ownership & funding.
• No paid placement in the news. We do not accept payment to publish, rank or change a news story. If we ever publish anything paid for, it will be labelled as sponsored before the headline, and kept out of the news sections.
• No affiliate links in the news. Any affiliate or booking links are limited to travel pages, never news stories, the Morning Brief or data pages, and are disclosed where they appear.
• Puerto Rico first. We publish news about Puerto Rico. Stories that are not genuinely about the island are left out.
• Naming people in crime stories. We name people who are arrested or charged when officials or the original reporting name them. We do not name minors or the victims of sexual crimes. When charges are dropped or a person is acquitted and that is reported, we update the story or add a note.
• Images. We use only images that are credited, licensed or in the public domain.

Corrections

When we get something wrong we correct it and say so. How that works, and how to tell us, is on our corrections policy.

Contact

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