Editorial Standards
How we source, credit, correct, and decide. Published in full, because an unsigned publication has to be checkable.
What Money & World is
Money & World is a daily record of what happened in tax, accounting, finance, economics, and the wider world, and what it changes for the people it happens to.
We do two things. We report original analysis of policy and markets. And we track the work of the reporters and outlets breaking news across this beat, tell you plainly who broke it, and point you at the document underneath.
Most publications treat the second job as something to hide. We treat it as the product.
Who found it first
When a story on this site originates in another newsroom's reporting, we say so in the first two sentences, we name the reporter, we name the outlet, and we link to their work.
Not at the bottom. Not as "reports say." Not as a citation buried under four hundred words of our own paraphrase. At the top, with the reporter's name on it.
Reporting is expensive and somebody paid for it. Readers deserve to know who, and reporters deserve to be read. If a story we summarize is better than our summary, which it often is, we would rather you go read it.
The document underneath
Every item on this site links to the primary source where one exists: the actual notice, the actual filing, the actual statement, the actual bill, the actual docket entry.
This is the core discipline of the publication. Financial and tax journalism runs on a long chain of people describing documents to each other, and detail is lost at every link. We publish the last link and the first one together.
Where no public document exists, we say that explicitly rather than implying documentation we do not have.
What it changes
Every story here ends with the same question, because it is the one that actually matters and the one most coverage skips: what does this change for the reader.
A rate decision is not news because it happened. It is news because of what it does to a mortgage, a payroll, a quarterly estimate, a balance sheet. We report the event and then we answer the question.
Bylines
Staff reporting on Money & World publishes under the newsroom rather than under individual names.
This is a deliberate editorial choice with long precedent in this field. It means the institution stands behind each piece rather than an individual, that our reporting is edited collectively, and that the judgment expressed is the publication's. The Economist has published unsigned for most of two centuries on the same reasoning.
It also means our work has to carry itself. An unsigned publication cannot ask you to trust a résumé. So we do the opposite: we link the document, name the outlet that broke it, and let you check every claim we make against its source. Verification is offered in place of authority. We think that is the better trade, and it is the standard we would rather be held to.
Contributed work is always signed. Guest essays, columns, and outside analysis carry the author's real name and their real credentials, because when someone is writing from their own expertise, who they are is part of the argument. Our unsigned staff copy and our bylined contributors sit side by side deliberately.
Responsibility for every published word, signed or not, rests with the editor of Money & World and with the company named on our About page.
Photographs and illustrations
Photographs on this site are our own, licensed, released into the public domain by the United States government, or published under the original outlet's embed. We do not take other newsrooms' photography.
Where a story calls for an image and no photograph exists that we may lawfully use, we illustrate it, and we say so. Every illustration on this site is credited as an illustration in its caption.
We do not generate images of real people, and we do not generate images of real events. A photograph is a claim that something happened and looked a particular way, and we do not make that claim with a picture we manufactured. If you see a photograph here, it is a photograph.
How our work is checked, and when
We publish continuously, and we are going to be precise about what that means, because most publications are vague about it and the vagueness is always in their favour.
Our news briefs are drafted with the help of AI tools and published once they pass an automated check against the sourcing rules on this page. That check is strict and it is mechanical: a brief cannot publish without a named source outlet, a link to the original reporting, a link to the primary document or an explicit statement that none exists, and it is blocked outright if it asserts that somebody did something when the document only says they are accused of it.
A human editor reviews what we publish after it is live, not before. Our editors are specialists in law, in tax and accounting, in economics, and in markets, and they correct or remove what is wrong when they find it.
That is a real difference from how a traditional newsroom works and you are entitled to know it rather than discover it. It means a mistake can be live on this site before a person has read it. We think the trade is defensible for short briefs that do nothing but relay a document and credit the reporter who found it. You may disagree, and if you do, the honest response is to weight a ten-minute-old brief accordingly.
What protects you before an editor arrives is the same thing that protects you after: every claim links to the document it came from. If a brief tells you the IRS delayed a rule, the notice is one click away. You are not being asked to trust our process. You are being handed the source.
Use of AI tools
We use AI tools for research, for drafting, and for structuring data. We disclose this because readers are entitled to know how the work in front of them was made, and because you would be right to be annoyed if you found out later.
Be clear about what this means: for our briefs, a machine makes the final call to publish. Not a person. The rules it applies are written by people and published on this page, and the automated check is genuinely strict, but nobody reads a brief before it goes up.
We are not asking you to trust the machine. We link the document under every claim precisely so that you never have to.
We do not publish invented authors. There are no fabricated bylines, no synthetic reporters, and no fictional credentials on this site. Our stories are unsigned because a real newsroom stands behind them, not because there is nobody there. And we do not let a tool invent a fact: every number, date, name, and quotation is drawn from the linked document, and a claim that cannot be traced to one does not publish.
Accuracy and corrections
We will get things wrong. When we do, we fix them in the open.
Errors of fact are corrected on the story itself, with a dated note that stays permanently. We do not quietly edit and we do not delete stories to make errors disappear. Every correction is logged publicly at Corrections.
If we have published something inaccurate, tell us: corrections@moneyandworld.com. Requests from the subject of a story reach the editor the same day.
Fairness
We report what documents say and what people said. We do not report why they did it unless they told us why.
Allegations are identified as allegations. A charge is not a conviction and we never write it as one. Where a story contains an accusation against a named party, we seek their response before publication and print it, or we state plainly that they did not respond.
Independence and conflicts
Money & World is editorially independent. Advertisers, sponsors, and commercial partners have no input into coverage, no advance sight of stories, and no influence on what we publish.
Our publisher has business interests outside this publication. They do not direct coverage, and they do not receive advance sight of it. Where this publication writes about a company, a firm, or a person that our publisher has any commercial relationship with, we say so on the story itself, plainly, at the top. That disclosure is not optional and it is not a footnote.
We would rather tell you about a conflict than have you find it. A reader who discovers an undisclosed relationship is right to discard everything else we have told them.
Nothing on this site is investment, tax, legal, or financial advice. We report what happened and what it changes. What you should do about it depends on facts about you that we do not know, and that is a conversation for a professional who does.
Contact
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Last updated: July 15, 2026.