Core Editorial Principles
Tech In Business commits to:
- Accuracy first. No story is published unless it is verified. Speed never overrides accuracy.
- Independence. Editorial coverage, story selection, and reporting outcomes are never negatively influenced by advertisers, sponsors, or commercial partners.
- Fairness. Subjects of critical coverage are given a genuine opportunity to respond before publication, and their response is fairly represented.
- Transparency. Authorship, sourcing, and any commercial relationship relevant to a story are disclosed to the reader.
Sourcing & Verification Standards
- Named, on-the-record sources are preferred in all cases. Anonymous sourcing is used only where a source faces genuine professional or personal risk from identification, and only when the editor overseeing the story has independently verified the source’s credibility and access.
- Significant factual claims like funding figures, regulatory actions, executive statements, are corroborated by at least one additional source or primary document (press release, filing, official statement) wherever possible, consistent with standard journalistic practice.
- Data and statistics are sourced to their original publisher, not to secondary aggregators, wherever the original is accessible.
- AI tools may be used to assist with research, transcription, or drafting support, but every published article is written, fact-checked, and approved by a named human editor before publication. Tech In Business does not publish AI-generated articles without substantive human authorship and editorial review.
Conflict of Interest Policy
- Writers and editors must disclose any financial holding, prior employment, advisory role, or personal relationship with a company or individual they are assigned to cover, and recuse themselves from that coverage where a genuine conflict exists.
- Staff may not trade on, or share, material non-public information learned in the course of reporting (e.g., an unannounced funding round or acquisition).
- Sales and sponsorship staff have no input into editorial story selection or content, unless it is a SPONSORED article.
Sponsored Content & Advertising Disclosure
- Any article, video, or content published as part of a paid partnership is labelled clearly at the foot of the article “Partner Content.”
- Magazines including e-magazines (e.g., the Fintech Special, Healthtech Special) may include sponsor-supported sections, which are labelled as “Partner Content”; the independent editorial content within the same issue is held to the same standards as any other Tech In Business publication.
Corrections Policy
Modelled on accepted journalistic practice, corrections on the news portal including in the e-magazines are handled by severity:
- Minor corrections (typos, misspelled names, small factual slips that don’t change the substance of a story) are corrected directly in the article text, without a formal notice.
- Significant corrections (an inaccurate figure, misattributed quote, or an error that changes the reader’s understanding of a fact) are corrected in the text and accompanied by a visible correction note at the bottom of the article, stating what was corrected and the date of correction.
- Major errors (a substantially incorrect central claim, or a story that should not have been published as reported) receive an editor’s note at the top of the article explaining the nature of the error, and in serious cases, a standalone correction article.
- Corrections are made as soon as an error is verified.
Right of Reply
Any individual or company that is the subject of critical or potentially damaging coverage is contacted for comment before publication wherever feasible. If no response is received by a reasonable deadline communicated to the subject, the article will note that comment was sought and not received.
Reporting an Error
Readers, sources, or subjects of coverage who believe a Tech In Business article contains an error can report it via editor@tech-inbusiness.com with the article URL and a description of the issue. Reports are reviewed by an editor, not the original author alone, to maintain independence in the review.