Standards

Our stories open with a line we call Where we heard it: the show or source, the date, who spoke and a link to the original when one is public. Readers should be able to go to the same tape or filing we used.

We cover what people say on financial television, podcasts, earnings calls, filings and conferences. We pick moments that could matter to investors and that we can test against data.

We go to the closest source to the fact, in this order:

1. The source itself. The audio or video, the filing, the press release, the post.
2. Official data. SEC filings, the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the Bureau of Economic Analysis, the Federal Reserve, the Treasury, the Energy Information Administration, exchange data.
3. The company. Earnings releases, shareholder letters and call transcripts.
4. Named news organizations, credited by name, for facts we cannot reach ourselves.

Aggregators and summaries help us find a primary source. They are never the final word. When we can only confirm something through another outlet, we say whose reporting it is.

We check quotes against the recording or an official transcript. We remove filler words such as “um” or a repeated word only when the meaning does not change. Any cut inside a quote gets an ellipsis. We do not join sentences spoken minutes apart into one quote.

We confirm who said each line. On a panel or a shared segment, that means matching the voice and the host’s cue, not assuming the guest said it. If we cannot confirm the speaker, we do not attribute the line.

When no recording or transcript is public, we say where the quote was reported and attribute it to that outlet.

We recompute figures ourselves from primary data instead of copying them from a quote screen or another story.

• Prices are regular-session closing prices. If we use an intraday or premarket price, we give the time.
• Returns say whether they are price change or total return with dividends, and over which dates.
• Estimates name the provider. We do not cite “consensus” without saying whose.
• Results use the latest report available on the day of publication.
• A speaker’s figure stays theirs. When the data differs, we keep their words and show the data beside them. Those checks are collected on The Record.

We use a person’s title as their employer or the broadcast lists it, and check spellings against an official source.

A headline must say what the story shows. If a headline overstates a speaker’s view or gets a fact wrong, we change it and note the change.

Our charts are built in-house from the data in the story. Each states its period and measure, and we check every number on it before publication.

Our illustrations are drawings made with AI image tools and reviewed by an editor. They are not photographs, and we do not use AI to create realistic images of real people or events.

We use AI tools to transcribe audio and video so editors can check quotes against the recording, to gather and recompute figures from filings and data series, to help draft and edit copy, and to make illustrations.

An editor is responsible for every story we publish. Every quote, number, chart and image is checked by a person before it goes live, and AI output is never published without that review.

When we get something wrong, we fix it in the story and add a note saying what changed and when. We do not quietly change facts. Significant corrections are listed on our corrections page.

To report an error, email [email protected]. An editor reads every message.

My Investing News is owned by Flywheel Publishing and partners with 24/7 Wall St. We do not publish paid or sponsored stories, and no company or person we cover pays for coverage or reviews a story before publication.

Coverage is not investment advice. We report what people said and what the data shows so readers can judge it for themselves.

Writers and editors do not trade a security on information they gather for a story before it is published, and they disclose any holding in a company they cover to their editor. An editor with a conflict hands the story to someone else.