Clarify the decision.
Define the project, its stage, the deadline, and the editorial questions that require the closest attention.
Services
Editorial standards support for consequential reporting.
Independent review, practical policy, and experienced guidance for newsrooms, podcast and documentary teams, independent creators, and counsel working through difficult editorial questions.
Pre-publication review
Independent pre-publication review of stories, scripts, podcast episodes, and documentary projects for fairness, sourcing, verification, attribution, language, and editorial risk.
Explore the service →02True-crime podcast standards
Editorial standards and ethics guidance for true-crime and narrative podcasts, including disputed facts, sourcing, corroboration, requests for comment, episode framing, and corrections.
Explore the service →03Editorial policy and training
Practical editorial policy development and newsroom standards training covering accuracy, fairness, sourcing, verification, corrections, escalation, and approval processes.
Explore the service →04Defamation expert witness
Chris Scholl is available in selected defamation and libel matters to explain newsroom standards, sourcing, verification, fairness, editorial process, and corrections practice.
Explore the service →A practical process
Examine the reporting.
Review the relevant material, sourcing, verification, fairness steps, language, context, and editorial workflow.
Make the guidance usable.
Identify priorities, explain the reasoning, and help the team make decisions it can apply and defend.