How the wire is made.
Published on the record. If we break these rules, the corrections file says so.
The two-source rule
Every story is filed from a fetched primary source and cross-checked against at least one independent corroborating outlet under different ownership. Items that have passed only one verification cycle are visibly labelled until the second pass completes.
Primary documents outrank coverage
Filings, registers, court bulletins, central-bank releases and official advisories are always preferred as the primary citation. Where coverage is cited, the underlying document is linked whenever it exists.
AI-assisted, under a named editor
The Regent Wire is an AI-assisted newsroom. AI handles the machine work — translation of foreign-language documents, candidate summaries, entity linking, draft assembly and a style sweep — and a second model adversarially checks claims. A named editor of record then picks the lead, applies the two-confirmation rule, and answers for every line. The judgment is human; the leverage is AI.
Filed from the document
No story without a public-record document behind it. Treaty leaks require two independent confirmations. No anonymous sourcing.
Corrections above the fold
Corrections sit above the original, permanently. Sponsored coverage of governments, parties, or state-adjacent entities is refused — always.
Images
We publish our own desk illustrations, official handout and public-record imagery, and openly licensed photography with attribution. We do not republish agency photography without a licence.
Corrections
Corrections are permanent, prominent, and logged publicly in the corrections file. The original error remains visible beneath the correction.
What we refuse
No pay-for-coverage. No state-adjacent sponsorship. No private individuals. No anonymous single-source stories presented as fact.