Ethics statement

Conflicts of interest

Contributors disclose any personal, financial, or family connection to a subject before reporting begins.

Compensation

We pay contributors a flat rate per piece, agreed in advance, and we pay on acceptance. We do not pay sources for interviews.

Subjects of reporting

We treat the subjects of our pieces as people, not as material. We give them the opportunity to review direct quotations attributed to them before publication.

Photographs

We obtain consent for portraits where a subject is identifiable. We do not photograph children without parental consent.

Diversity of voices

We commission across geography, language, gender, race, age, and class.

Mistakes

We make them. When we do, we correct them visibly.

What we do not do

We do not write clickbait. We do not run native advertising. We do not run affiliate links. We do not publish pieces drafted by generative text models.