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Editorial policy

Clear rules for what ends up on the site and how it got there.

Sources

Regional news starts from publicly-available RSS feeds of established Alicante press. We don't scrape paywalled content. Every article links back to its source, within the limits of Spanish press-syndication fair use (LPI art. 32.2).

How articles come together

An automated pipeline pulls items from the source feeds throughout the day, filters out duplicates and anything that isn't relevant to Costa Blanca readers, and prepares a draft summary in the five languages we publish.

A human editor reviews every draft before it goes live. That means checking facts against the source, adjusting tone where it reads stilted, confirming the category and city tags, and rejecting anything that doesn't hold up. Drafts that don't reach the public site aren't a failure — they're the filter working.

AI disclosure

We use AI — Anthropic's Claude — to summarise and translate regional press items. We do not use it to generate original reporting, quotations, statistics or opinions. Nothing on the news section is published without a human sign-off first.

If you'd rather read only human-authored content, the guides, fiestas, places and routes sections are written by the editorial team start to finish.

Corrections

We aim to respond to correction requests within 24 hours. Send the URL of the affected page, the sentence or fact in question, and the source you believe we mis-represented, to editorial@costablanca.today. Substantive corrections are logged on the article with a visible "Corrected: YYYY-MM-DD" note — no silent edits.

What we will NOT do

  • Publish AI-generated news without a human review.
  • Take money to run a news story favourably — or at all.
  • Hide corrections behind silent edits.
  • Reproduce more than the headline and lead of source stories.
  • Cover national politics that don't directly affect Alicante residents.
  • Run stories we can't verify against a public source.

Data sources

Weather, traffic, civil alerts and fuel prices come verbatim from Spanish public APIs with attribution on every page. See data sources for the full list and legal basis.