CR Today’s ethics framework prioritizes accuracy, transparency, and minimization of harm to subjects of reporting. The newsroom operates on an automated production workflow, but the editorial standards below apply to all published content.
Plagiarism
Original reporting and attribution are required. AI-assisted draft generation does not waive citation duties — every fact-bearing claim is paired with an external authoritative source link via our cr-related-sources system. Articles that cannot be sourced are not published.
Privacy & harm minimization
CR Today covers news subjects who are public figures — athletes, executives, performers, and elected officials. We do not publish private information about minors or non-public figures except where directly and publicly relevant to the news event. Our automated source ingestion is configured to draw from established publishers and primary institutional sources, not from social media or unverified personal accounts.
Anonymous sources
CR Today does not use anonymous sources. Our editorial workflow is built on publicly reported events and primary sources from a curated authority whitelist (see our Fact-Checking Policy). Articles that depend on anonymous sourcing fall outside the scope of our automated production system and are not published.
Imagery
Featured images are sourced via the wp-automatic ingestion system from images embedded in or linked from publicly reported source articles. We do not alter images beyond technical processing — resizing, WebP conversion, and filename SEO normalization — handled by our cr-seo-images pipeline; original image metadata is preserved (originals are retained in postmeta for traceability). We do not generate synthetic images using AI.
Conflicts of interest
The Editor-in-Chief discloses any direct financial interest in subjects of YMYL coverage. CR Today’s automated source-selection system has no financial incentive structure — there is no monetization tied to which authority sources are linked.