# Becoming an official publication: what changed in v1.1.0, sgit.ai > The changes to the article "Becoming an official publication" in v1.1.0, paragraph by paragraph. *Source: · sgit.ai v0.7.87 · this file is generated from the same content as the page, so the two cannot drift. Every page on this site has a `.md` twin; internal links below point at them.* --- [Home](../../../index.md) / [Articles](../../index.md) / [Becoming an official publication](../../becoming-an-official-publication.md) / [Versions](../becoming-an-official-publication.md) / v1.1.0 # Becoming an official publication: what changed in v1.1.0 From v1.0.0 (2026-10-30, `8f1cfaadb`) to v1.1.0 (2026-10-31, `46f9fbdb4`), paragraph by paragraph. 0 paragraphs added, 0 removed, 5 changed in place, 52 unchanged. About 54 words added and 7 removed. Insertions are marked like this, deletions like this; unchanged runs are folded to one line; figures appear as their file names. [all versions](../becoming-an-official-publication.md) · [v1.2.0 →](v1.2.0.md) 1 unchanged paragraph Summary: The SGit Newsroom has been publishing for weeks, and it names companies, reports incidents and argues positions, written by agents from my voice memos. Today a story showed me that this needs more than good habits. We wrote about a contractor's agent on a Pentagon network from secondary reports of an article we could not read, copied a quote that one outlet had given to the wrong party, corrected it, and then I withdrew the article, because theitstoryrepeatedneedsallegationsaaboutpropernamedprocess:organisationseverymadeclaimbymappedunnamedtosources,itswhichsource,thisandnewsroomtheshouldpartiesnotaskedpublishonatthe record before we publish.all. So the newsroom is becoming an official publication. In the UK there is no licence to be a journalist; what makes a publication accountable is that it says who publishes it and who answers for it, publishes its standards, corrects in the open, withdraws with a notice, takes complaints, and submits to an independent regulator. As of this release the newsroom has an imprint, naming The Cyber Boardroom Limited as publisher and me as editor, and saying plainly that agents write the articles; editorial standards that includeruletheoutrightmakingoforreply;repeating allegations, so what we publish is analysis and opinion; a corrections log; a formal withdrawal process with its first notice; and a complaints route with a 21-day answer. Next we apply to IMPRESS, the independent press regulator, and register for an ISSN with the British Library, and later we look at the Journalism Trust Initiative and a press card for the editor. This article says what each step is, what it costs, what we have done and what is still to do. 6 unchanged paragraphs, under In short {#in-short} • **The**Werightdoofnotreplymakeisallegations,noworarepeatrule:**them.** anWeallegationpublishisanalysisputandtomy opinion, with the party beforefacts it isrestspublished.on. 4 unchanged paragraphs, under Why now {#why} We wrote about WIRED's report of a contractor's AI agent on a Pentagon network. WIRED's page refused our tools, so we read it through what six other outlets said about it, and said so. When I later shared the article itself, it showed that one outlet had joined the end of the Department of Defense's statement to the start of Accenture's, and we had copied it. We corrected it within the hour. Then I withdrew the article, because aitstory withrepeated allegations about named organisations needsmadeabyproperunnamedprocesssources,beforeanditthat is published:noteverysomethingclaimthismappednewsroomtoshoulditspublishsource,atand the parties asked on the record.all. That process is what an official publication has, and what we did not have written down. 3 unchanged paragraphs, under What makes a publication official {#official} • **It publishes its standards,** and keeps them: accuracy, sourcing, quotes, privacy, thehowrightitofhandlesreply.claims about others. 12 unchanged paragraphs, under What we did today {#done} Most of these write down what the newsroom already did: every source dated, quotes verbatim, every version public, reviews [on the record](../../reviews-on-the-record.md). Two things are new rules. TheFirst,rightopinion and not allegations: we do not accuse any person or organisation of reply:wrongdoing,beforeand we do not repeat other people's allegations either, because in UK law repeating an allegation is publishing it. What we publish anisallegationanalysisaboutand my opinion, said in the first person, with the facts it rests on, so a reader can see the basis and disagree; and when we criticise a named person or an organisation, we putletitthemto them, with the evidence,know and publish their answerresponse.or that they did not answer. AndSecond, withdrawal: only the editor withdraws an article, and every withdrawal gets a notice. 26 unchanged paragraphs, under Agents write here, and the imprint says so {#agents}, The first withdrawal {#withdrawal}, What comes next {#next}… [all versions](../becoming-an-official-publication.md) · [v1.2.0 →](v1.2.0.md) --- *[Site index for agents](../../../llms.txt) · [HTML version](https://newsroom.sgit.ai/articles/versions/becoming-an-official-publication/v1.1.0.html)*