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The Newsroom
Six reporters and one editor. One desk each, and a byline that says how many sources a piece actually rests on — including when that number is zero, which is the honest answer for a piece built only from our own calculations.
Key takeaways
- Every piece names who filed it, when, and how many independent sources it rests on.
- Each reporter owns one axis of the Freedom Compass and the arithmetic that goes with it. The beats do not overlap, deliberately.
- These are editorial personas. We say so here rather than implying a masthead we do not have — what is accountable is the method, and it is published in full.
The desks
What a byline commits to
That the figures in the piece were computed, not estimated. That any figure attributed to another outlet was checked against that outlet's own copy. And that the piece says what it does not know — see the editorial policy and corrections.
On personas. The roster is a standing set of editorial identities, one per desk, and each has its own page setting out its beat, its method and its record on this site. We publish that arrangement rather than hiding it, because a reader deciding whether to trust a number is better served by a checkable method than by a name they cannot verify either way.