An article is only worth reading if you know what produced it. This page describes how teqpost turns a developing story into something worth your time, so you can judge the result for yourself.
We read the whole field, not one report
Before writing, we collect every outlet covering a story. A claim carried by five newsrooms is established fact. A claim carried by one is either a scoop or a press release, and the two need very different handling. Where accounts conflict, we say which outlet reported what instead of silently picking a side.
We go to the primary source
Most coverage of a lawsuit describes the press release about the filing. Most coverage of a breach describes the company statement rather than the advisory. Where a primary document exists, a court filing, a security advisory, a changelog, a research paper, a regulatory ruling, we read it and link to it. This is the single biggest difference between what we publish and what gets syndicated.
Every article adds something
A summary of other people’s reporting is not journalism, it is a link with extra steps. Each article here has to carry at least one of the following:
- Arithmetic somebody should have done. What a price rise costs over three years, including the tier change nobody mentioned.
- A fact from the primary document that the coverage missed.
- Context from the last time this happened, and what came of it.
- A plain answer to the question the announcement avoided.
- A follow up. We revisit stories months later to check whether the promised fix actually shipped. Almost nobody does this, which is exactly why it is worth doing.
We name our sources
Whoever broke a story is credited and linked in the article, near the top. Reporting on other outlets’ work is normal practice in journalism. Passing it off as your own is not, and the difference is visible attribution.
What we will not claim
- We do not describe a device as tested unless we have used it.
- We do not publish scores. A number implies a precision we cannot support.
- We do not report rumours as fact. Where something is unconfirmed, the article says so in the sentence that carries it.
Corrections
Factual errors are corrected in place with a note describing what changed and when. If a correction materially alters the point of an article, that is stated at the top. To report one, contact us.
