Show your work

Traditional newsrooms have an editorial process readers never see. A newsroom that shows its work earns trust that a black-box newsroom cannot. The design makes the newsroom's own departments public pages, not an internal org chart.

Fifteen departments, each a public page

Rather than a single opaque "editorial" function, the newsroom design splits into fifteen departments — assignment, research, reporting, translation, fact-checking, graphics, community, and others through to the corrections desk — and each one is specified as a page a reader can visit, not a role that only shows up in a byline. A reader can see who tipped a story, who was assigned to it, what it bounced back for, and what it cost before it ever reached them.

The corrections desk is a department

Not a form buried three clicks deep. Under this design, corrections have the same standing as reporting or fact-checking — a department with its own public page, its own record of what was corrected, when, and why. That is the site's own most distinctive argument given an organisational home rather than left as an abstract principle.

The review process is a graph, not a gate

"A decision should never be a yes or no. A decision should always be a graph that collects a bunch of evidence." Editorial review under this design is not a single approve/reject gate — it is a sequence of named, owned steps, each contributing evidence to the final decision rather than replacing it. The decision graph, in full.