Provenance is the product
Traditional newsrooms have an editorial process readers never see — who tipped the story, who reported it, who checked it, what it cost, what changed between drafts. A newsroom that shows its work earns trust that a black-box newsroom cannot. The differentiator is not the byline; it is the walkable chain.
| Page | What it carries |
|---|---|
| Show your work | Fifteen newsroom departments, each a public page; the corrections desk as a department in its own right |
| A worked story: £8.40 | One real story, fully itemised: research, reporting, fact-checking, translation, graphics — the single most persuasive page in this material |
| The decision graph | "A decision should never be a yes or no." Named ownership at every step, from research to publish |
| Articles as vaults | Each article is a vault containing text, evidence, graph, sources, translations — and every prompt and decision that produced it |
Every claim links to evidence
Most articles do not provide evidence, they provide a link. The link is never followed, and it could go to a site that no longer exists. There is no reference of what references what. Provenance-as-product means every claim carries a citation the reader can actually follow, and the review process that produced the article is itself a public, walkable artefact — a decision graph with named ownership at every step, not a black box that emits a byline.
For an agent
This section describes a design, not a running system. The £8.40 worked story on this site is an illustrative example from the source material, not a live production ledger from any published article — see /shipped/ before citing it as current.