Five rules, published before the first story.
These are the rules every piece on Nashur is held to, on both desks, printed here before the first story runs so there is something to hold us to.
v1.0 · in force from launchThe five rules
Every story has a named byline
Someone on our desk wrote it and answers for it. No anonymous house copy and no invented experts.
Claims carry their sources
Figures, contracts and quotes are sourced in the piece. Anonymity is granted for risk, not for convenience, and where a name is withheld the story says why.
An editor reads it before it runs
Every story is read by a desk editor before publication. On defense that read includes a specific check for operational detail that could put people at risk.
Corrections stay on the page
We correct at the top of the story, dated, describing what was wrong. Nothing is quietly edited and nothing is deleted.
Commercial work is labelled, always
Advertising, sponsorship and partner content are labelled where they appear. None of it buys coverage, and no advertiser sees a story before it runs.
What we do not publish
Short and specific on purpose. A vague list is unenforceable and an infinite one goes unread.
- Unsourced allegations against named people or companies
- Content targeting a private individual
- Sexual content
- Operational detail that would put people at risk
- Undisclosed paid content
- Attacks on the rulers or the political system of the countries we report from. We operate here, and that is a condition of operating here
Every correction we have made.
The list is complete and it is not going to be tidied. If we got something wrong and it is not here, tell us at corrections@nashur.com.
Nothing corrected yet. This page fills up over time — that is what it is for.
Independent of the people we cover, and of the people who pay us.
A newsroom this close to the industries it covers has a specific failure mode: it becomes a channel for whoever has something to announce. The 5 rules above are how we stay on the right side of that line, and the corrections list is how you can check we did.
How commercial work is handledThink we got something wrong?
Tell us. If we did, the correction goes at the top of the story and on the list above.