Editorial pillars

Journalism

Reporting on the ecosystem and the wider Indigenous, tribal-economy, and aerospace beats that the diaspora has standing competence to cover. Sourced reporting only. Anonymous sources are admissible where the rule is met and where the editor has the second source on the record. The desk does not publish to keep up with a news cycle; it publishes when the reporting is finished.

Archive

Record — the archival arm — preserves and publishes primary sources from the Osage and partner ecosystems. Document scans, oral histories, dedications, ceremonial recordings, and the long tail of the daily working record. Deposits are content-hashed and indexed at Osage Network; the hash is the citation.

Broadcast

Live broadcast is run jointly with Osage Live. Standing observances, ecosystem convenings, and licensed performance carry the same broadcast discipline as the journalism: the cut that goes to air is the cut that goes to the archive.

Documentary

Long-form documentary work, produced inside the desk on the same editorial standards as the news pillar. The standing documentary series is HerStory — a long-running series on the women whose witness was decisive, and routinely written out, in the histories of their nations.

Op-eds & the public temper

A small standing op-ed page carries signed work from inside and outside the diaspora. Op-eds are signed; rebuttals are published in full; corrections are appended dated. The page does not run anonymous polemic and does not run pieces the editor would not put a name to.

Editorial standards

• Verify before publish. Two sources on the record for every contested fact. Documents in hand before any document is described in print.
• Never silently edit. Once published, copy is not changed in place. Substantive corrections are appended dated; typographic corrections are noted in the masthead log.
• Corrections in public. Where a story is wrong, the correction runs at the same prominence as the original. A retraction runs over the original.
• Right of reply. Subjects of accountability reporting are offered the right of reply before publication. Replies, when filed, run in full.
• Identified sources by default. Anonymity is the exception; the exception is documented in the spike file, never on the page.

Sister desks

The Media desk works on standing terms with the Osage Institute (working-paper journalism on the three research streams), the Foundation (the press imprint for monographs and the Heritage series), and Osage Live (live transmission and the broadcast archive).

What we will not do

We do not run sponsored content under the editorial mark. We do not run anonymous attack pieces. We do not silently edit published copy. We do not publish reporting whose sourcing we could not defend in a libel proceeding. We do not write headlines our own reporter would not stand behind.

Engagement

Pitches, tips, and correspondence are welcomed in writing. The desk responds to every serious inquiry. Time-sensitive tips should reach the editorial pager.

• Editorial desk: [email protected]
• Tips and documents: [email protected]
• Archive and corrections: [email protected]