Editorial policy
How our reporting is produced, checked, labelled and corrected.
Independence
Casino Industry Watch is an independent news site operated by its editorial team. Coverage decisions are taken by the newsroom. No sponsor or advertiser can pay for a news story, review an article before publication or change what we report.
Sources
We work from public, verifiable sources: regulators and government bodies, legislation and court records, company statements and financial filings, official statistics and published research. Each article lists its sources under the heading “Sources”.
When sources disagree or a claim cannot be confirmed, we say so rather than choosing the more dramatic version.
AI assistance and automated checks
We use AI assistance to research and draft our reporting from cited public sources. Automated checks then compare every draft with its sources before it is published, so that each figure, date, name and quotation can be traced back.
- Every factual statement must be supported by a cited source; unsupported claims are removed.
- Figures, dates, names and quotations are compared with the sources automatically.
- Quotations are only used when they appear in a cited source, and are attributed to it.
- Articles are not credited to invented people: the byline is always the newsroom.
Automated checks have limits. They test a draft against its sources; they cannot make an inaccurate source accurate. Read our sources critically, and tell us when we get something wrong.
Corrections and updates
If you find an error, e-mail contact@casinoindustrywatch.com with the article and the problem. We review every report; when a correction is needed we fix the article and show an “Updated” date and time on it.
Sponsored content
Paid guest posts are published only with a visible “Sponsored” label, with rel="sponsored" on their commercial links, and after the same editorial review as our own reporting. See Write for us.
Gambling and minors
We report on gambling; we do not promote it. We never target content at people under 18 and include information on support for anyone affected by gambling harm on our responsible gambling page.
Images
Article images are illustrative unless the caption or text says otherwise. Every image has a text alternative.