How this is made
In one paragraph
Baseload News is machine-assisted. Stories are drafted by an automated pipeline from primary documents - regulatory dockets, market operator reports, company filings and statutory datasets - and reviewed by an editor before publication. An outlet assembled this way has one structural weakness and exactly one way to convert it into a strength: be more transparent about sourcing than a newsroom has to be. That is why every story lists what it was built from, and why this page exists.
01 · Sources
Every story is built from primary documents wherever one exists: regulatory dockets, market operator reports, company filings, and statutory datasets such as EIA, ENTSO-E, Eurostat and IAEA PRIS. Trade press is treated as a secondary source and is never the sole support for a figure.
Ingestion runs continuously against wire services, regulator feeds, market operator publications and our own scrapers. Items are scored for materiality and deduplicated against the previous seven days before anything is drafted.
02 · Assembly
Drafting, translation and structured-data extraction are automated. Every numeric claim is matched to a source document before it can enter a draft.
If a claim cannot be traced, it is dropped - not softened, not attributed to "reports", not hedged with "reportedly". A shorter piece that is entirely sourced is better than a longer one that is ninety per cent sourced.
03 · Human review
An editor reads and signs off the daily Brief and every analysis piece before it publishes. Wire items publish automatically and carry the AUTO label so you can tell the difference at a glance.
We never invent a human byline. Automated work is authored by "Baseload Desk", and it says so.
04 · Corrections
Every correction is logged publicly and permanently, with a timestamp, and shown on the article itself. We do not silently edit a published figure - if it changes, it is a correction.
Corrections are a trust asset, not an embarrassment. If you think something here is wrong, tell us and we will check it against the source.
The three labels
Wire item. Published without human review. Sources listed, no analysis, no interpretation.
Analysis. Pipeline-drafted, every claim traced, signed off by a named editor.
A person wrote it, with a byline. All opinion sits here.
Machine translation is labelled as machine translation. English is the source of record.
What we do not do
- We do not publish causal claims a source has not established.
- We do not use AI-generated photorealistic imagery of any place, event or person.
- We do not attribute quotations that are not verbatim in a named source.
- We do not run sponsored content presented as editorial.
- We do not publish investment advice.
Tell us we got something wrong
Corrections are welcome and are published. Use the feedback control on any page, or write to the desk.