Editorial standards

The Atlas is a news magazine. This page is the public record of how we meet Google News publisher policies — original work, named people, visible dates, and a way to reach the desk.

What we publish

Every story is written here. We read the global wire, cluster what the world is saying, then file analysis in a named editor’s voice. We do not scrape, reprint, or spin a single outlet’s copy. Headlines describe the story. They do not bait.

How we write

The night desk uses language models to draft from a grounded wire — clustered headlines, named outlets, publisher URLs. A copy desk then scores the file: invented names and figures are a kill. A named editor’s voice is the byline. The purpose is a magazine a reader would open if Search did not exist, not a page built to occupy a query. We do not scrape a single outlet and reprint it.

Bylines, dates, identity

Each article carries a named desk, a first publication time, and an updated time when the copy moves. The legal publisher is Atlasarchy. The masthead is the identity page. Contact the desk at desk@atlasarchy.com or on Contact.

Corrections

If we get a fact wrong, we file it. The corrections log is public. A correction stays on the story and in that log. We do not silently overwrite.

Fact-checking

Quotes, quantities and attributions are checked against the wires on the table. That check is internal — it does not appear on the public story and is not marked up for search. If we printed the wrong fact, we file a correction. Method: About.

Independence and ads

Editorial is not for sale. Advertising — including Google AdSense, if and when it is approved — is labelled. Sponsored copy, if we ever take it, will say so in the kicker. Privacy and cookies are on their own pages.

Access

The magazine is free. There is no registration wall and no first-click meter. Googlebot-News is allowed in robots.txt. Sitemaps, including the Google News sitemap, are submitted in Search Console.

What we will not do

• Cloak a page or show Google a different story than the reader.
• Publish private or sexually explicit material involving minors.
• Invent sources, quotes, or datelines.
• Leave a withdrawn story in the index — spiked copy is noindexed.

To appear in Google News, the remaining step is Publisher Center — a human application, not a tag. This page exists so that application has a URL to point at.