What gets published in the record, what does not, and who decides

These are the rules the record runs on.

We are a publisher for aerospace and defense. We sell companies a channel on our titles for their own announcements and their people's pieces, labelled as partner content wherever they appear.

The seven tests

Every entry has to pass all seven. An entry that fails one is dropped, not softened, held or published with a caveat.

Test one. Subject. The entry concerns a named aerospace or defense company, or a regulator action that changes what such companies may sell or who they may sell it to. Airline route announcements, airport infrastructure, general aviation consumer news and air show colour do not qualify unless a named supplier is the subject.

Test two. Event. Something happened, on a date. Certification, approval or design change granted. Contract or award announced. Funding closed. Acquisition or merger. Facility, production line or capacity opened. An executive appointed to a role that owns revenue, or to the executive team. Product launched or entered service. Export control status changed. First-time exhibition at a named show.

Test three. Source. A public address we can open, from the party the event is about or from a publisher of record: a government register, a regulator, the company's own newsroom, a wire release carrying the company's name, a securities filing, or a named trade outlet with a byline. No source, no entry.

Test four. Checked quotation. Before an entry publishes we fetch the source again and confirm the quoted words are still there. If they are not, the entry is dropped.

Test five. Consequence. Somebody here can say in one factual sentence what the event changes in the market. If nobody can say what it changes, it is noise.

Test six. Recency. Published within thirty days of when it reaches us. Once an entry is published it stays permanently; the thirty days is the window for getting in.

Test seven. Not already here. One entry per event. Where several outlets carry the same event, the source closest to it wins: the register over the wire, the wire over the write-up, the company's own words over a rewrite of them.

What does not earn a place

• Anything with no source we can open.
• Anything whose quotation we cannot confirm is still in the source on the day it publishes.
• Anything we cannot summarise in one factual sentence of consequence.
• Opinion, commentary, thought leadership, awards, sponsorships, rebrands, anniversaries, and vendor material published by a trade outlet under a commercial arrangement.
• Appointments below the level of the executive team or a role that owns revenue.
• Anything from a company that comes up on the restricted-party screen described further down.
• Anything about a company connected to the editor's current employer.

When an entry goes up

An entry publishes the moment its source is verified and a person has cleared it. Nothing is queued to a later date and nothing is held back to make room for something else. A record that holds entries back is a record of an earlier day, and the dates are the whole proof.

Entries a company sends us are cleared on the same terms as the ones we find. Send us yours instead of waiting to be found.

The editor's sentence

The editor's sentence on an entry says what the event changes in the market. It goes on the entry the day he writes it.

It never says what the company should do about it. It never says the company now needs anything. It never contains a prediction.

The sentence does not hold the entry back: verification is what decides whether an entry publishes, and the sentence is added to the published entry.

Anything worth arguing goes in a story on the title, which carries its own sources, and the entry links to it.

How much of a source we reproduce

For every entry we publish five things and nothing else:

1. The headline as the source published it, unmodified.
2. One passage quoted from the source, of forty words or fewer, unless the register below says this source allows more. One continuous passage, and never two separated pieces joined by an ellipsis into a sentence the source did not write.
3. Who published it: the publisher, the author where there is a byline, and the date.
4. A link to the original, direct, with nothing in between.
5. The editor's sentence, where he has written one; it is ours and is never part of the quotation.

We never publish the full release. We never publish a summary long enough to save anybody the trouble of reading the original. We never publish a photograph, chart, logo or video from a source.

The register: the terms we rely on, and the day we read them

A source is quoted under the forty-word rule unless its own published terms say more is allowed. When they do, the clause is in this table with the date we read it.

No reachable terms means the restrictive rule applies. The row records the failed attempt and its date. Every row expires after ninety days and goes back to the restrictive rule until somebody reads the terms again. Nothing is published under an exception that is not a row here.

Every row above is rechecked by 12 November 2026. A row that is not rechecked reverts to the restrictive rule on that date, and any entry running longer than forty words on that source gets shortened.

No wire is on this table as an exception. Every release from a wire is quoted under the restrictive rule until that wire's terms are retrieved, quoted and added as a row.

If you publish something we have quoted and you want it shortened, delinked or taken down, ask, and it happens within five business days. We will not argue about it.