Editorial Standards | Veraxis News

Our Mission

Veraxis News is a Canadian digital news publication based in Fredericton, New Brunswick, delivering curated news coverage across national affairs, local Fredericton coverage, technology, and professional sports. Published daily by Synexmedia.com.

Honest Disclosure

AI-Assisted Journalism

Veraxis News uses artificial intelligence (Google Gemini) as a writing and analysis tool to draft news summaries from verified source material. AI assists with headline clarity, story summarization, key fact extraction, and contextual analysis. The AI does not conduct interviews, make editorial judgments about what to cover, or generate information not present in source material.

Source Standards

All articles are derived from licensed RSS/Atom feeds and news APIs from established publishers including Global News, BBC News, Sportsnet, Ars Technica, The Verge, and Telegraph-Journal. We do not scrape websites. Every article links to its primary source and lists research sources used for cross-reference.

Quality Controls

Every article passes through multiple automated quality gates before publication:

Multi-layer deduplication to prevent repetitive coverage
Boilerplate filtering to remove non-editorial content
Similarity checking using Jaccard coefficients and n-gram analysis
Minimum quality thresholds that must be met or the entire edition is held from publication

What We Do and Don't Do

We Do

Curate and summarize news from established publishers
Provide key facts and context
Attribute all sources
Maintain daily publication cadence

We Don't

Conduct original reporting
Interview sources
Send reporters to events
Generate information not found in source material
Publish opinion or editorial content

Human Editorial Oversight

Glen Munro serves as publisher and editor of Veraxis News, responsible for: selecting and curating news sources, setting quality thresholds and editorial parameters, reviewing pipeline output, making editorial decisions about coverage scope, and maintaining editorial standards.

Fact-Checking

Veraxis News maintains a separate fact-checking division with over 1,300 verified fact-check reports, available at our Veraxis Fact-Check portal. Our automated pipeline includes an optional fact-checking pass that validates claims against source material, flagging incorrect names, statistics, dates, or fabricated quotes.

Contact

For editorial concerns, corrections, or questions about our standards, please use our contact page or email the editorial desk.