How we work

What we publish

Our mastheads publish factual news reporting on listed companies, built from primary sources: company announcements, regulatory filings and market data, with sources named in the article. We exercise editorial judgement about significance. We decide what matters, what's routine, and how a development sits against everything the company has said before, and we make that call in the reporting.

What we don't publish is advice. No masthead in the network holds an Australian Financial Services Licence. We don't make recommendations, set price targets, or tell anyone what to buy or sell. Opinion appears only where a masthead files it under a clearly marked Opinion section. We judge the news, not the investment.

What we cover

We can't cover everything that gets lodged, and we don't try to. We focus where reporting adds the most for readers: the announcements that carry real news. Coverage of a company is never a signal about its securities, and absence of coverage is never a judgement about its prospects. Companies can guarantee coverage of their announcements through a commercial arrangement, described below, and that guarantee changes how often we cover them, never how.

Sources and accuracy

Our reporting states what the source document contains. We judge what's in an announcement; the accuracy of the announcement itself is the responsibility of the company that lodged it, under its continuous disclosure obligations. Where source material is preliminary, such as exploration results, the company's original announcement remains the authoritative source. We take reasonable care to report source material accurately, and we correct errors when we make them: factual corrections are noted at the foot of the affected article, with the date of amendment.

Paid coverage

Some companies pay for guaranteed coverage of their announcements. Every article produced under such an arrangement carries a Coverage label, visible on the article card before you click through, and the disclosure stays on the article permanently. When a client relationship ends, the disclosure moves to past tense; it never comes off.

Coverage articles are written to the same standards as everything else we publish, and the guarantee runs both ways: we cover everything a client announces, including adverse news, handled factually, with no client opt-out. Clients don't review, approve or amend our articles; the first they see of coverage is when it publishes. The final call on every word is ours, and we stand behind it. A Coverage label tells you a commercial arrangement exists. It does not indicate our endorsement of the company or its securities, and it buys no influence over the words.

How our journalism is produced

The mastheads of the Assayer Network are AI-assisted publications. Articles are produced by our editorial systems from primary source material and published under named reporter personas. These are AI personas, not human journalists, and each masthead says so on its own methodology page, where you can read how its pipeline works, what it publishes, and what it doesn't.

Imagery

Articles are illustrated with real imagery: photography, maps, charts and figures from company announcements and company-supplied materials. We don't use AI-generated images or stock photography. Where an announcement carries no usable imagery, the article runs with the masthead's standard template treatment instead.

Independence

The network sits outside the transaction. We judge the ore, not the investment: we don't recommend securities, we don't raise capital, and no commercial relationship changes what we write. Companies will always tell their own story, and should. Ours is the version they don't control, which is what makes it worth reading.

Free to read

Everything our mastheads publish is free to read. No paywalls, no registration, no subscription required. Coverage does its job when investors can read it, so ours stays open, permanently.

Corrections and contact

If you believe we've published a factual error, contact the masthead's editorial address or editor@assayernetwork.com. We investigate, and we publish corrections where warranted.