Editorial standards

USA Standard publishes original reporting, analysis and explanatory journalism. Every article carries a byline: a named author, or a desk byline such as The Markets Desk for explainers produced by a team. Material factual claims are attributed to a named source, a filing, a document or other published evidence, and are checked against it before publication. Primary sources are preferred where they exist. Estimates are identified as estimates and attributed to whoever made them. We do not publish investment recommendations.

Source selection

We use regulatory filings, official releases, court documents, company disclosures, public records, direct interviews and other primary materials wherever possible. Secondary sources may provide context, but they do not replace direct verification when a primary record exists.

Conflicts of interest

Journalists and editors disclose relevant financial, professional or personal conflicts, and do not cover subjects where a conflict makes independent reporting impractical.

Artificial intelligence

Some explainers published under our desk bylines are researched and drafted with AI tools. Each is built from regulatory filings, official data, public records and published reporting, and lists the sources it relies on. Before publication, a separate review checks every fact, figure, date and quotation against the saved source pages, corrects what the sources do not support, and holds the article back if anything cannot be confirmed. A desk byline names a team, not a person: USA Standard takes responsibility for every article that carries one, and our corrections policy applies to them in full. Nothing is published merely because a model produced it.

Images

Images are original, licensed, supplied with permission or otherwise lawfully used. Captions and credits are accurate. Generated or materially altered imagery is disclosed wherever it could otherwise mislead a reader.

Headlines

Headlines must accurately represent the article. We do not write a headline that creates a misleading impression in order to attract a click.

Numbers

Figures are checked against primary sources where primary sources exist: regulatory filings, company statements, official statistical releases. Where a figure is an estimate, we say whose estimate it is.

No investment advice

We report what happened, what was filed and what people said. Nothing we publish is a recommendation to buy or sell any security, and no article should be read as one.

Commercial separation

Paid features and commercial content are clearly labelled and do not determine independent editorial coverage. See our sponsored content policy for exactly how paid work is identified.

Corrections

We correct factual errors in public, according to our corrections policy, and record every correction in the corrections log. Tell us about an error at corrections@theusastandard.com; anything else about our coverage reaches the newsroom at editorial@theusastandard.com.