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Editorial Standards

How our articles are written, sourced, published, and corrected.

How articles are written

Articles on The Florida Press are researched and written by AI (currently Anthropic's Claude), working to a written brief that the site's owner maintains. The rules below are the rules in that brief. Pieces in the Editorial & Opinion section are written the same way.

Articles are published automatically. No human editor reads each article before it goes live. The owner audits published articles in batches, changes the brief when an audit finds a pattern of mistakes, and corrects individual articles when an error is found or reported.

Sourcing

Each story is meant to rest on the public record: a state or federal agency release, a court ruling or docket, an arrest affidavit or sheriff's office statement, a National Hurricane Center advisory, a government data release, or a box score. Where that record is online, the system reads it directly. Other news outlets are used to find stories, not as the source for them.

Claims that are contested or only partly confirmed are presented that way (“according to initial reports”, “the agency says”), not as established fact. Facts that cannot be confirmed are left out.

Quotes

We do not invent quotes. Statements are attributed to the agency or office that made them (“the governor's office said”). Words appear in quotation marks only when they can be traced to a published statement, transcript, press conference, or release.

One article per story

Before writing, the system checks the list of everything the site published in the last two weeks. When something new happens in a story we already covered, the existing article is updated instead of a new one being written.

Florida focus

National and international stories are covered through their effect on Florida: hurricanes, federal funding, immigration, the insurance market, tourism, and the cruise industry. If a national story has no Florida angle, we do not cover it.

Images

Photographs come from Wikimedia Commons and from Flickr under Creative Commons or public-domain licences, including federal government works (NOAA, NASA, FEMA). The photographer and licence are credited beneath each image.

Corrections

When we get something wrong, we fix it. Substantive corrections are listed on our corrections page with the date and what changed. Typos that do not change the meaning are fixed without a note.

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Last updated: October 6, 2026.