Editorial standards

Every article is built from sourced material. Wire reports, official announcements, regulatory filings, market data feeds and direct corporate communications are the source tiers we draw on.

Each article carries a verification status that distinguishes confirmed information from developing situations. Confirmed means the underlying claim has been independently corroborated or comes from a primary source with on-record attribution. Developing means the situation is moving and facts may shift — readers see this state explicitly so they can weight the claim accordingly.

What we will not publish: unverified rumors, single-source claims dressed as fact, or anything that depends on "sources said" without context.

Attribution supports reporting — it does not replace it.

Headlines state verified news. They never open with "According to X…" or "Sources say…" — constructions that frame claims as provisional before the reader knows what happened. Attribution appears in the body: we name sources, link or quote material directly, and supply the context needed to understand the full story.

Market prices are Handelsavisen's own data voice. We do not write "according to Reuters, oil rose 2%" when our own data feed has the price. Our market observations stand on their own provenance. When external narrative claims appear alongside our price observations, the two are kept in distinct sentences so attribution stays unambiguous.

The headline says what happened. The body shows how we know.

Handelsavisen is built on automated infrastructure. Every article carries a footer disclosing that fact. There is no hidden authorship.

Articles are drafted under structured editorial direction, validated against data contracts and cross-checked for attribution discipline and structural completeness before publication. Drafts that fail validation are quarantined for review. They do not publish.

Readers with questions about a specific article reach the editorial team at kontakt@handelsavisen.no.

When we get something wrong, we fix it on the record.

Corrections are made in-place on the original article with a timestamped note describing what changed and why. The original claim is not silently rewritten. When a story develops materially after publication — for example, when developing situations confirm or contradict the initial report — we publish a follow-up article and link it to the original coverage chain so readers can trace the full arc.

Material errors get a correction notice. Typos and small clarifications do not.

Handelsavisen is an editorially independent newsroom. Coverage decisions are not driven by advertiser, partner, ownership or political relationships.

Our market observations are derived from licensed market-data feeds and public regulatory filings. We do not take positions in the securities we cover. Conflicts of interest, when they exist, are disclosed in the relevant article.

Editorial control sits with the editorial team — not with engineering, not with commercial, not with any third party.

Market prices are time-stamped facts, not editorial framing.

When a price appears in an article, it carries an as-of timestamp from the underlying data feed, not the publication time. When markets are closed at the time of writing, the article makes that explicit rather than presenting stale data as live. When there is a meaningful move between the article's data-as-of and the moment of reading, the reader has the timestamp to recognize that.

Prices are reported as observed, not adjusted to fit narrative.