Editorial Integrity & Policies

Overview

Quincy News exists to deliver market-moving and policy-relevant information without delay, distortion, or editorial influence. Our role is not to interpret, speculate, or persuade — but to ensure that facts, as they are issued, reach all subscribers with equal speed and clarity.

This page outlines our editorial principles, our sourcing methodology, the limits we place on our own influence, and the safeguards we use to protect against conflicts of interest.

How We Gather and Deliver News

1. Identify Primary Sources: We monitor official government channels, corporate disclosure systems, regulatory bulletins, and authorized news feeds.
2. Acquire Content in Real Time: Using our high-speed network infrastructure, we ingest releases, statements, and events directly from the source without intermediary handling that could delay or alter the information.
3. Verify Authenticity: We confirm each piece of content against the issuing authority’s records.
4. Publish Without Alteration: Our role is to reproduce the content exactly as received, with only formatting adjustments necessary for clarity (e.g., correcting transcription errors in official captions).
5. Document Source and Timestamp: Every item is distributed with a time-stamp and a clear citation.

Independent Editorial Control

Quincy News is an independent, for-profit news organisation whose entire commercial proposition rests on its editorial integrity. We do not segment ownership from editorial decision-making because both are bound to the same mission: fact-only reporting, delivered with speed and equality of access. Our editorial principles are embedded in every business process, from technology architecture to subscriber agreements.

There is no internal conflict to mitigate, unlike in many traditional privately held newsrooms where ownership and editorial priorities may diverge. At Quincy News, ownership and editorial operations are aligned on the same principle: our business exists to deliver fact-only reporting. The same leadership that oversees our infrastructure and commercial growth also upholds — and benefits from — our strict editorial standards.

Independence in Practice

• All news decisions are made by Quincy News staff.
• No advance review or approval by external stakeholders.
• No agreements that give outside entities influence over story selection, timing, or framing.
• Editorial principles embedded in hiring, training, and workflow design.

Secure Embargo Handling

Certain economic releases and datasets we handle — such as time-sensitive government statistics or partner-provided market reports — are subject to embargo until an agreed release time. Quincy News operates a dedicated, security-hardened workflow to ingest, protect, and release such information with precision and integrity.

Governance & Accountability

Our embargo program is owned by the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), who also serves as our compliance and data-protection lead. Named operational leads maintain the ingest pipeline, time-sync controls, and release run-book. An on-call operations team monitors every stage 24×7, and independent spot audits are conducted to ensure operational integrity and compliance.

Data Classification & Protection

Embargoed, market-moving data is encrypted at rest and in transit. It is stored only inside an isolated embargo network. Every embargoed file is well labelled with its embargo status and release timestamp.

Access Control & Authentication

Access to embargoed data is strictly limited to a small set of authorised staff under least-privilege controls. All console and API access requires at least two-factor authentication. Access rights are reviewed quarterly, and anomalous logins trigger immediate alerts.

Precision Time-Synchronisation

Our release process is locked to highly accurate, GNSS-disciplined time sources traceable to NIST services. A hold-gate prevents any release before the embargo timestamp, with a microsecond-precision drift guard to eliminate early leaks.

Embargo Enforcement & Release

The embargo pipeline moves data from secure ingest, through verification and encryption, to pre-positioned caches at our edge locations. At the precise release moment, identical payloads are transmitted simultaneously to all subscribers, ensuring zero advantage for any subscriber. The same content is also posted to our public news-feed with full source attribution.

Monitoring, Logging & Audit

All ingestion, processing, and distribution events are logged to a central security information and event management (SIEM) platform with at least one year of searchable history. Daily dashboards track clock drift, pipeline health, and last-release status. External penetration tests and control reviews are conducted regularly, with shareable summaries to data partners under NDA.

Incident Response

Any suspected or actual unauthorised disclosure triggers immediate containment actions, with a 15-minute target for isolation. We notify affected partners and regulators where applicable, and we complete an initial root-cause analysis within 72 hours.

Training & Continuous Improvement

All staff with embargo access complete mandatory training on market abuse law, data handling, and our specific release procedures. Annual refresher courses include simulated drills. Lessons learned from each release cycle are captured in post-mortems and feed directly into process and tooling improvements.

Why We Work This Way

In modern markets and public policy, information is power. Unequal or distorted access to information can tilt outcomes, reduce trust, and harm both participants and the public. Our commitment to fact-only, equal-access reporting is a safeguard against these distortions.

By removing editorial opinion, we ensure that subscribers receive the same raw material policymakers, analysts, and decision-makers see — allowing them to form their own conclusions.

Our subscribers trust us to be a transparent record-keeper, not a commentator. This trust is our most valuable asset, and our policies are designed to protect it.