Editorial Policy

The Platinum Capital exists to publish business journalism that is sourced, edited, useful, and independent of commercial influence. Our beat is global business: the leaders, capital, and ideas shaping markets across banking, finance, real estate, energy, technology, leadership, and the wider corporate world.

This Editorial Policy is the public version of the working contract our newsroom holds itself to. We publish it so that readers, sources, partners, and the people we cover can hold us accountable to it.

Editorial decisions — what to publish, when to publish, how to frame, and how to headline — are made by working journalists and editors. Commercial considerations do not influence those decisions.

Specifically:

• Sponsors and advertisers do not see editorial content before publication and have no input into it.
• Awards sponsorship is firewalled from awards judging. Sponsors do not see the shortlist before the public does.
• Section sponsorships, where they exist, are clearly labelled and are limited to site-furniture acknowledgement (such as a sponsor card on a section landing page). They do not appear on individual editorial articles.
• We do not run advertorials, sponsored articles, or branded content alongside editorial in a way that could mislead readers about what is independent journalism and what is paid content.

Every load-bearing factual claim in our journalism is supported by a verifiable source — a public filing, a primary document, a person on the record, or a combination of these. We aim to attribute openly wherever practical, naming the source in-line.

Where attribution would expose a source to harm or breach a confidence, we may use unnamed sourcing. In those cases:

• The decision to grant anonymity is made by the editor, not the reporter alone, and is recorded internally.
• Anonymous claims of fact are corroborated by at least one independent source where the stakes are material.
• We characterise the source’s position with as much specificity as the protection allows (for example, “a senior official familiar with the deal” rather than “a source”).

For documents and data, we link to or describe the underlying source where possible so that readers can verify. Statistics are checked against the original release rather than secondary summaries.

We use generative AI tools in the same way we use spell-check, search, and other research aids: as a support to human journalists, never as a substitute. Any AI use is subject to the following rules:

• Articles are written by named human journalists who take responsibility for the final text.
• We do not publish AI-generated quotes or attribute AI-generated content to real people.
• We do not pass AI-generated images off as real photographs. Any AI-generated illustration is labelled.
• Where AI is used in a substantive way for a particular piece (for example, large-scale data analysis), we disclose its use in the article.

Where a story makes a critical or contested factual claim about an identifiable person or organisation, we offer them a meaningful opportunity to respond before publication. This is standard practice for our newsroom and applies even where it would be commercially inconvenient.

A meaningful opportunity means: contact through a sensible channel; sufficient time to respond, having regard to the nature of the story; and good-faith inclusion of any response in the article. It does not give the subject a veto over publication.

Journalists at The Platinum Capital disclose to their editor any personal financial holding, relationship, or external commitment that could reasonably be perceived as creating a conflict of interest with a story they are working on.

Reporters do not own securities in companies they cover. Where a holding pre-dates an assignment, the editor will reassign the story or, in rare cases, require the holding to be disposed of before the article is filed.

Gifts and hospitality are accepted only within reasonable industry norms (such as a working meal during an interview) and are reported to the editor. We do not accept payment, paid travel, or accommodation from a story subject in exchange for coverage.

Every newsroom makes mistakes. When we do, we correct them promptly, transparently, and on the same article where the mistake was made.

Our standards:

• Material factual errors are corrected as soon as we are reasonably satisfied the original was wrong, and the corrected article carries a dated correction note explaining what changed.
• Minor wording or typographical errors are fixed without a correction note unless the error materially altered the meaning.
• Significant changes to the substance of an article after publication (for example, when a story develops or new information emerges) are flagged with an update note dated to the time of the change.
• Articles are not silently deleted. If an article must be removed for legal or other compelling reasons, we will leave a stub explaining that an article was removed and why, where doing so does not itself create the harm we are trying to avoid.

To request a correction, please contact corrections@theplatinumcapital.com with the URL and the specific point you believe is in error.

Where you have a concern about our journalism that goes beyond a factual correction, please see our Complaints Policy. It explains how complaints are handled, what to expect, and the routes for independent review.

A newsroom that talks only to one kind of source produces predictable journalism. We actively widen our sourcing — geographically, structurally, and demographically — so that the analysis we publish reflects a broader set of perspectives than the typical industry default.

This is editorial discipline rather than tokenism. Better-sourced journalism is better-tested journalism.

For editorial queries, story tips, or feedback on a piece we have published:

• Story tips and pitches: tips@theplatinumcapital.com
• Corrections: corrections@theplatinumcapital.com
• Editor-in-chief: editor@theplatinumcapital.com