Accuracy before publication
Company names, tickers, dates, currencies, percentages, transaction terms, drill results, technical figures and material claims are checked against the identified source. Completed actions are not written as proposals, and management targets or forecasts are not presented as guaranteed outcomes.
Source transparency
Articles identify the public material used to prepare the report. Primary sources are preferred. Independent editorial may rely on one primary source for a discrete company announcement or on multiple sources for broader analysis. We do not imply multi-source reporting when only one source was used.
Original reporting and added value
Cornerstone does not treat a lightly rewritten press release as independent journalism. Independent reports must add clear value through verification, context, comparison, evaluation, risk framing, follow-up questions or additional public-source research. Content that substantially reproduces or merely synonym-recasts another publisher’s work is not eligible for the dedicated Google News feed.
Independent editorial
Independent editorial is selected without issuer payment or pre-publication approval. The subject company does not control the headline, framing or conclusion. These stories carry an Independent editorial label and follow the same source, byline, date and corrections standards applied throughout the newsroom.
Sponsored coverage
Coverage produced in connection with compensation, ownership interest or other material support is labeled Sponsored coverage near the headline and linked to the complete disclosure. Cornerstone does not charge a separate publication fee for an individual newsroom article; sponsored reports are provided within a broader commercial relationship and remain subject to the same source, byline, date and corrections standards.
Google News and discovery policy
The dedicated Google News sitemap is not restricted by commercial status. It may contain both independent editorial and clearly disclosed sponsored coverage when an article meets the newsroom’s source-verification, editorial-review, originality, substantive-quality, indexability and freshness requirements. Sponsorship alone does not exclude an otherwise qualifying article. Commercial relationships are never hidden or presented as independent reporting, and every sponsored article retains its visible Sponsored coverage label and commercial-relationship disclosure. The primary newsroom RSS feed remains focused on independent editorial, while sponsored coverage is also available through its separate labeled feed and archive.
Named authorship
Articles are published under a named writer or editor rather than a generic desk byline. Drew Lien is the current writer and editor for Cornerstone Market Intelligence. Author pages identify the person, role and professional profile used for verification.
Publication dates and updates
The visible publication date reflects when the article was first published. A modified date is used only when the substance of a story changes. Routine design work, image replacement, link maintenance, author-page improvements or site-wide technical changes do not artificially refresh old stories.
Headlines and context
Headlines must match the underlying report and avoid unsupported certainty. Where an issuer makes a claim, target or forecast, the article attributes it appropriately and adds context needed to understand limitations, conditions or execution risk.
Corrections
Material factual errors are corrected promptly after review. Meaningful changes are documented where appropriate. Readers and sources can report concerns through the corrections policy or newsroom contact page.