Ordelvio News

Methodology

How Ordelvio News stories are made

What happens between a source publishing something and a story appearing here, step by step.

In short

Stories in this section cover the economy and companies, technology and AI, and science and research, with a focus on the United States, the euro area, the United Kingdom and Japan. An AI model writes each story from one to four named sources. A second AI pass and a set of fixed checks test the draft against those sources, and an editor reviews and approves every story before it is published. Nothing is published automatically.

1. A run starts on request

Stories are not produced on a timer. The operator of Ordelvio News starts a run when they choose to. A run collects recent items from a fixed list of sources and turns the most newsworthy ones into drafts. A run can only create drafts; it cannot publish anything.

2. Sources

Sources are primary institutions: organisations that publish their own announcements, data and research, such as central banks, statistics offices, public agencies, research institutions and companies' own newsrooms. A source is used only as far as its own published terms and its machine-readable signals, such as robots rules, allow. When the terms are unclear, the source is not used. The software that collects items identifies itself honestly, follows robots rules and crawl delays, and does not get around paywalls, logins or blocks.

Some research papers come from the arXiv preprint server. arXiv does not peer review papers, so a story that relies on one says that it is a preprint, and only the paper's title and abstract are used, never the full paper.

The outlets cited in published stories are listed at the end of this page.

3. Scoring and grouping

Fixed rules first set aside items that are stale, promotional or outside this section's scope, including items that concern crime, police, courts or lawsuits, deaths, or allegations of wrongdoing. An AI model then scores each remaining item for news value and assigns a category. Reports about the same event are grouped so that one story covers them, and an event that was covered recently is skipped.

4. Writing

An AI model writes an original story in English from one to four sources about the same event. Source texts are used for facts only: the story does not follow any one source's structure, and it quotes only short, attributed phrases where the exact words matter. Every outlet the story relies on is named in the text, together with the reporter when the source gives one, and linked in the source trail beside the story.

5. Checking

A second AI pass and a set of fixed checks compare the draft with its sources. The AI pass currently uses the same model that wrote the draft. The checks test whether numbers, quotations, names and credits match what the sources say, whether qualifications such as "could" or "is expected to" survive, whether the headline is supported by the text and whether the material is recent. The results go to the editor with the reason for any failed check. A failed check on numbers, quotations, credits or source licences, or a problem the AI pass rates as serious, can be overridden only with a recorded reason; other failed checks are shown to the editor as warnings. The editor corrects the draft, rejects it or approves it, and can also ask the AI model to revise the draft against the failed checks; the revised text is checked again before the editor decides. Nothing is published automatically. Where a story shows a checks count, such as "10/11 checks", it gives how many automated checks the final text passed; the count also includes checks of length and source licences, and each problem the AI pass reported counts as one failed check.

6. Illustration

Every story carries an illustration generated by an AI image model from the story's headline and summary (with people's names taken out) and a written description of the site's illustration style. It is editorial artwork, not a photograph: it never presents a real event as if it had been photographed and never shows an identifiable person. Each illustration has a visible "AI illustration" label, and on the story page also a credit line that names the image model. No photographs are taken from other websites.

7. Editor review

An editor reads every draft next to its sources, the check results and the illustration, and then approves, edits or rejects it. Only approved stories are published. The editor is currently the operator of Ordelvio News; there is no separate newsroom staff.

8. Publication, updates and corrections

Each story shows when it was first published and, if a correction has been added since, when it was last updated, in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). Lists show stories newest first; they are not ranked by reader behaviour, and no view counts are shown. A correction is added to the end of the story as a dated note saying what was wrong and what is correct, and listed on the corrections page. A story that has to be removed is withdrawn: its address then shows a short notice instead. New stories are also available as RSS and Atom feeds.

If someone a story concerns sends a reply or correction request that meets the legal conditions, it is published within one day of receipt, without changes, on the story's own page directly under the headline. If the story has been withdrawn, the reply gets a page of its own and a notice on the news front page for at least seven days: at the top for at least the first 24 hours, then below the top stories. The corrections page describes the procedure in full.

A copy of every version of every story, including corrections, replies and withdrawal notices, is kept in a private archive for at least two years, so that it can be provided to a prosecutor or a court on request. Withdrawn stories stay in the archive but are not shown to readers.

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Corrections, replies and takedown requests

To report an error, request a correction, send a reply or ask for material to be removed, please give the address of the story and describe what is wrong. The editor reads every request, and a credible copyright claim leads to prompt removal of the material concerned. How to reach the publisher, and who hosts the site, is on the contact page. How AI is used is described on the AI disclosure page.

Write to ordelvio@gmail.com.

Outlets cited in published stories