How the wire is made.
Published on the record. If we break these rules, the corrections file says so.
The two-source rule
Every story is filed from a fetched primary source and cross-checked against at least one independent corroborating outlet under different ownership. Items that have passed only one verification cycle are visibly labelled until the second pass completes.
Primary documents outrank coverage
Filings, registers, court bulletins, central-bank releases and official advisories are always preferred as the primary citation. Where coverage is cited, the underlying document is linked whenever it exists.
AI-assisted desk, disclosed
The Dossier Wire is an AI-assisted newsroom. Synthesis is machine-drafted, adversarially verified in a second pass, and gated by a rules engine. If more than 5% of claims in a draft fail verification, the story is killed, not fixed.
25-word quote cap
No more than 25 words quoted from any single source. We link; we do not reproduce.
Archive at publish
Every cited URL is snapshotted to a public web archive at the moment of publication. Citations cannot rot.
Images
We publish our own desk illustrations, official handout and public-record imagery, and openly licensed photography with attribution. We do not republish agency photography without a licence.
Corrections
Corrections are permanent, prominent, and logged publicly in the corrections file. The original error remains visible beneath the correction.
What we refuse
No pay-for-coverage. No state-adjacent sponsorship. No private individuals. No anonymous single-source stories presented as fact.