Editorial standards

How we choose stories

A story is on the front page only when it is Scottish technology news: a Scottish company, a Scottish office, Scottish money or Scottish policy, and technology, a startup or a company doing something technological. A property sale, a charity fundraiser or an energy project with no technology in it is not tech, however it was filed. The news must be from the last 72 hours. When there are not enough of the day's own stories, an older one from the last three days can fill a space, and it is labelled as such. One event is one story, however many outlets report it.

Sourcing

• Every story links to its primary source: the outlet that reported it, or the company's, university's or public body's own announcement. The outlet's name is beside every story, and other outlets' reports of the same event are listed with it.
• We prefer the original: the organisation's own announcement or the outlet that broke the story, over a later rewrite.
• When the only report is behind a paywall, the link still goes to it, and the outlet's name tells you whose it is.
• Funding figures, company details and filings come from the article they appeared in or from the public record, and the page links to it.

Accuracy and dates

Every fact in a headline or summary comes from the reporting it links to: a headline the software rewrites may carry only the names and numbers in that article, and one that fails the check is not shown. A company is called by a place only when that is where it is (a multinational is never “Edinburgh's”). A story is dated by its own article; an undated story, or one dated in the future, is not shown. “Updated 3h” means newer reporting of the same event, never a re-dated old story.

Software and AI

Software chooses and ranks the stories and writes each headline and short summary from the reporting it links to. It does not report, interview or add facts of its own. The line in the masthead and the cartoon are made by software too. Every headline and summary is checked before it reaches the page; one that fails the check is not shown. People at LOOPSIO set the rules, read the page every day and fix what is wrong.

Headlines and summaries

Plain, in sentence case, saying who did what. No clickbait, no exclamation marks, no press-release voice (“is pleased to announce”), and no summary copied from a newsletter teaser.

Attribution

ayeoh.io has no bylines because it writes no reporting: each story carries the name of the outlet whose work it is, and the reporting belongs to them. Pictures are credited to the publisher whose image is shown.

Ethics

• No one pays to be on the front page, and nothing on it is advertising. A company's own announcement is shown only when it is news, and its own site is named as the source.
• We read only what a site's robots.txt allows, and never get round a paywall or a bot check.
• A publisher can ask us to take down a picture, a story or their outlet, and we do it straight away.
• ayeoh.io is run by LOOPSIO, a Scottish software company; the same rules choose a story about LOOPSIO as any other.

Corrections

When a headline or summary was wrong, we fix it and say so: the story is marked “Corrected”. Spotted a mistake? Write to ayeoh@loopsio.com or see contact.