Editorial & Sourcing Policy

This page describes exactly how content on Here's New is produced. It exists so that readers can tell the difference between what we wrote, what we indexed from someone else, and what is advertising — and so that the standards we hold ourselves to are written down and can be held against us.

Two kinds of content, clearly separated

Everything published here falls into one of two categories, and they are produced completely differently.

Original editorial: The guides and the thirty-three category pages. Written by the Here's New editorial team, explaining how release conventions work in a given area and which events within it carry consequences. These pages are not aggregated, summarised or rewritten from other publications.
Indexed release records: Individual dated entries describing a release, update or scheduled event. These are derived from public primary sources and always link to the original. Where we reproduce a publisher's wording we keep it short, mark it as theirs and attribute it.

What counts as an acceptable source

An entry is only indexed if it can be traced to a publicly reachable primary source that a reader can open and check. In practice that means one of the following.

Official vendor, publisher, developer or manufacturer announcements, release notes and changelogs.
Public repository release tags and package registry version metadata.
Government, regulatory and statistical agency publications, registers and calendars.
Official platform, storefront and distributor listings.
Standards bodies and certification authorities.

We do not index rumours, unattributed leaks, aggregated summaries of other aggregators, or anything behind authentication that a reader could not verify for themselves. If we cannot link to it, we do not publish it.

What we verify, and what we do not

Being explicit about the limits of verification is more useful than claiming a standard we cannot meet at this scale.

We verify: That the source exists and is reachable; that the source is the primary publisher rather than a repost; that the date recorded matches the date the source states; and that the entry is filed under the correct domain, category and event type.
We do not verify: The accuracy of the publisher's own claims. If a vendor states that a release fixes a defect or that a product has a given specification, we record the claim and attribute it. We are not in a position to independently test it, and we do not imply that we have.

Automated collection and human review

Release records are collected by automated crawlers reading public feeds, registries and APIs on a schedule. Automation determines what is collected; it does not determine what is published as editorial.

Collected items are normalised into a common structure — title, item, version, event type, date, source — and screened by an automated content filter before appearing. Sponsored submissions are reviewed by a human before they become visible. Category pages and guides are written entirely by people; we do not publish machine-generated articles, and no page on this site is auto-generated prose dressed up as editorial.

Corrections

We will get things wrong: a misfiled category, a wrong date, a broken source link, an entry that duplicates another, or an item that should never have been indexed. Corrections are welcome and we would rather hear about them than not.

Report an error through the contact form, selecting 'Bug Report & Technical Support', or by email, including the entry title and what is wrong with it.
Factual corrections to a release entry are applied as soon as we can confirm them against the source, and we aim to respond within two working days.
Substantive corrections to a guide or category page are noted on the page rather than made silently, and the page's updated date changes.
Where a date is revised by the source rather than mistaken by us, we record the revision as a new dated entry and leave the original in place — the change is part of the record.

Takedown and removal

If you are a rights holder or a publisher and you believe an entry reproduces more of your material than is reasonable, or misrepresents your announcement, contact us and we will amend or remove it. We index dates, versions and short descriptive summaries with attribution and a link back; where anyone considers that we have gone further than that, we would rather fix it quickly than argue about it.

Advertising disclosure

Here's New carries third-party display advertising and paid sponsored listings. Both are clearly labelled and separated from indexed content.

Display advertising is served by third-party networks. We do not select individual advertisements and advertisers have no access to editorial decisions.
Sponsored listings are submitted by users, marked 'Sponsored', displayed in distinct containers, and moderated before publication.
No payment influences whether a release is indexed, how it is categorised, what priority it is assigned, or its position in any list.
Outbound links in release entries point to primary sources and are not paid placements.

Content standards

The directory is intended to be suitable for a general audience aged roughly ten and above. Submissions are screened for profanity, adult content, gambling, drug references and graphic violence, and listings that violate these standards are removed and the submitting account suspended.

Some categories carry a standing caution: nothing in the corporate finance category is investment advice, nothing in the health and assistive devices category is medical advice, and nothing in the policy and regulation category is legal advice. Those categories exist to point at official publications with a date attached, and the official publication is always the authority.