Policy

Editorial Policy

This page explains how New Ukraine Daily handles sourcing, article framing, corrections, AI disclosures, image treatment, and ongoing newsroom maintenance.

Core Standard

Built for clear, defensible reporting on Ukraine

New Ukraine Daily is designed to publish English-language reporting on Ukraine that is factual, readable, and transparent about what is known, who reported it, and what remains uncertain.

The newsroom does not treat policy pages as boilerplate. These rules shape how headlines are written, how articles are repaired, how images are labeled, and how readers move through related coverage.

The standard is simple: every story should be easier to understand, better attributed, and more useful after editorial review than it was at raw input stage.

Sourcing And Attribution

What every report should make clear

News reports should state what happened, when it happened, where it happened, and who reported it as early as possible. Source attribution should remain visible to the reader when a story relies on an agency report, official statement, government release, or public institutional source.

The site aims to avoid unsupported synthesis, vague collective claims, and filler language that makes a report sound broader or more certain than the source material supports.

Headlines And Framing

Headlines should match the fresh angle, not manufacture urgency

Headlines should reflect the actual current angle of the story. They should not exaggerate routine developments, recycle old trends as if they were breaking, or overstate certainty where the reporting is still developing.

When the source angle is weak, generic, or misleading, the newsroom may tighten or normalize the headline so it better reflects the verified facts.

Corrections And Updates

How errors and clarifications are handled

Material factual errors are corrected as quickly as possible after verification.
Clarifications are made when wording is technically true but too broad, vague, or misleading.
Routine copy edits may be made without a formal note when they do not change meaning.
Substantive factual changes are treated as editorial maintenance, not silent cleanup.

Readers who want to report an issue should use the contact page and include the URL, disputed line, and supporting public source whenever possible.

Images And AI Disclosures

Real photos and AI illustrations are not treated as the same thing

Real source images should remain clearly attributable as source or agency photos. AI-generated visuals should be labeled as illustrations and should never be presented as documentary photography.

Technical pipeline captions should not appear in the visible article. Readers should see clean editorial labels such as Photo: [Source] or a clear illustration disclosure.

Archive Maintenance

Older articles are maintained, not left to decay

The newsroom treats archive maintenance as part of editorial quality. Older stories may be repaired when they have weak formatting, thin leads, technical captions, duplicate image blocks, broken metadata, or poor internal linking.

This does not mean facts are rewritten casually. It means the presentation, structure, and clarity of the article can be improved while preserving the factual meaning of the report.

Trust and newsroom references

Read About for mission and coverage priorities.

Read Newsroom for desk structure and editorial workflow.

Read Corrections for how factual fixes and clarifications are handled.