Standards
AI helps us research and draft. A named person decides what we publish, every time.
We use AI-assisted tools for background research, for organising sources and notes, for drafting assistance and for parts of the editorial workflow. We also use them to build and maintain the site itself. AI output is treated as a starting point that has to be checked, never as a finding in its own right.
AI does not publish on ArenaBulletin. No article goes live without a named editor reading it, standing behind it and taking responsibility for it. Facts, figures, quotations, sources and images are verified by a person against the original source before publication, and a claim that cannot be traced to one does not run. We do not mass-produce articles, and if output ever outruns our editorial attention we slow down rather than let the volume carry on.
Facts, figures, quotations, source links and image rights are checked by a person against the original source before an article publishes. Anything an AI tool surfaces is treated as a lead to verify, not as a finding. Where a claim cannot be traced back to a source we can open and read, it does not run.
Photography on ArenaBulletin is real photography. We do not use generated imagery to depict an event, a person or a moment that did not happen, and we do not alter a photograph in a way that changes what it shows. Where a story is illustrated with a graphic rather than a photograph, it is a graphic and is not presented as a picture of the event.
The decision to publish is a person's, every time. What we cover, what we lead with, what we hold back and what we decline are editorial judgements made by the editorial team. Automated processes may prepare research or a first draft, but nothing reaches the site without an editor reading it and putting their name to it.
Because the value of a news site is trust, and trust needs a person on the other end. The byline on every article is that person.