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Editorial Policy

How BazaarBaazi commissions, sources, edits, and publishes stories. The rulebook that governs every byline.

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This document is the working rulebook for BazaarBaazi journalism. It binds every desk lead, every contributing writer, and the editor-in-chief. Departures from the policy are flagged inline in the story or addressed in a public note. The policy is reviewed quarterly and the changelog lives at the foot of this page.

1. Editorial independence

No advertiser, affiliate partner, broker, listed company, or PR agency has any influence over what we cover, how we frame it, or whether we publish. The editor-in-chief is the only person with sign-off authority. We do not run sponsored stories. Where a piece touches a company we have a commercial relationship with (broker affiliate, adtech partner) the relationship is disclosed on the story itself.

2. Sourcing standards

Every quantitative claim in a published story (a price, a percentage, an order-book size, a holding percentage, an oversubscription multiple, a number of employees) must be backed by a primary source: an exchange filing, a regulator notice, a company disclosure, an audited financial statement, or a credentialed wire-service report. Where a number is sourced to a single secondary outlet it is attributed inline. Where a number is contested or estimated the story says so explicitly and labels the figure as our estimate.

3. The verdict frame

BazaarBaazi stories close with a signed verdict in a labelled verdict-block. The verdict is a directional read on the news, not a recommendation to buy or sell. The label is "What BazaarBaazi thinks" and the body is one to three sentences. The verdict is the editor-in-chief's read; the desk lead may dissent and that dissent is documented in the writer's note where applicable.

4. What we will not publish

5. Named bylines

Every story carries a real human byline. The byline links to a public author page. We do not use pseudonyms, agency tags, or wire-service-only attributions on substantive analysis. Wire copy is labelled as such and quoted, not rewritten and signed.

6. AI-assisted drafting

BazaarBaazi uses AI assistance for first-draft writing, structured-data extraction, headline rewriting, and translation. Every story passes through a human editor before publish. The full disclosure of which tasks AI handles and which tasks remain human-only is at AI disclosure.

7. Corrections and updates

We log every material correction publicly. Minor edits (typo fixes, dead-link replacement, formatting) are made silently. Material corrections (a wrong number, a misattribution, a misidentification) carry a dated note at the foot of the story and a parallel entry on the corrections page. Updates that add new information without changing prior facts are timestamped at the foot of the story under "Updates".

8. Right of reply

Companies, individuals, and institutions named in a critical story have a right of reply. Where the story makes a claim that the subject disputes, the editor-in-chief will offer the subject reasonable time to respond before publish. Replies received after publish are appended verbatim to the story or addressed in a follow-up.

9. Diversity of voices and sources

BazaarBaazi is a one-editor publication today. As we add desk leads we will broaden the source mix and the writer roster. The current commitment is procedural: we record source diversity (sell-side analysts, buy-side participants, retail traders, regulators, company spokespeople) on a per-story basis and publish a quarterly review.

10. Plagiarism and fair use

Verbatim text from a third-party source is always quoted and attributed. Paraphrased material is attributed in the running copy. Charts and tables built on third-party data carry a source line. We do not republish full articles or take charts without permission. We consider single-paragraph quotation with attribution to be fair use under standard journalistic practice.

Changelog