Our Principles

These are the standards we hold ourselves to at News French Fries, and the ones we want to be judged against.

1. Say how the work is made

Our articles are drafted with the assistance of AI tools and reviewed, fact-checked and approved by a named human editor before publication. We disclose that on every article rather than leaving readers to guess.

2. Show your work

Where a story rests on a figure, a date or a quote, we link to the document it came from. A reader should never have to take our word for it. Where we cannot link to a source, we say so.

3. Never invent a source

We do not cite documents we have not read, and we do not attribute statements to people or organisations that did not make them. An article that cannot survive this test comes down.

4. Correct mistakes openly

When we get something wrong we fix it publicly and explain what changed. No quiet edits, no buried updates.

5. Independence always

Advertisers do not shape our coverage and never see an article before it runs.

6. Respect the reader

We write for curious people. We do not pad an article to make it look substantial, and we do not waste anyone’s time with filler.

7. Embrace complexity, reject confusion

The world is messy. Our job is to make it understandable without flattening the truth.

8. Cover what matters

We focus on stories that inform, illuminate or genuinely entertain — not on chasing clicks.