Editorial standards and AI disclosure
The Courier is written with AI, checked against the record, and approved by a person.
How every issue is made
- An AI system drafts each story from the historical record.
- Our editor edits the draft.
- A separate AI pass checks every claim against the sources the story cites, and flags anything a source does not support. Each claim needs two sources.
- A further AI pass checks style and the period voice of the headlines.
- The editor gives every issue final approval before it is printed or published.
The Courier has no staff reporters or historians. We say so here because you should know how the paper you read is made.
Sources and pictures
- Every story's sources are published online, one page per year: see sources by year.
- Pictures are in the public domain or licensed, and the source and license of each one is recorded.
- Headlines, datelines and stories are written in the voice of the papers of the day, in our own words, never copied from other newspapers.
When we get it wrong
Tell us, and we will check and correct it: see the corrections policy.