Corrections & Editorial Policy

Corrections

Getting the facts right matters more to us than getting a story out fast. When we get something wrong, we fix it — and we're straightforward about having done so.

Typos, formatting slips, and other small, non-factual fixes are corrected silently as we catch them.

A factual error that affects the substance of a story — a wrong name, date, figure, or quote — is corrected as soon as we confirm it, and the article carries a short note stating what changed. We don't quietly bury a correction or pretend the error never happened.

Fact-Checking

Before a story publishes, we check it against the source material it's actually based on — public records, official notices, and firsthand detail about the place, business, or event involved. We don't publish a name, date, figure, or quote we can't verify against that material, and we don't fill gaps with assumption or speculation.

Sources & Anonymity

Our stories aren't built on confidential tips or unnamed sources — they're drawn from public records, official notices, and firsthand neighborhood detail that's already on the record. When a story names a person, place, or business, that detail comes from material that was already public, not from someone granted anonymity.

Conflicts of Interest

No one involved in deciding what SeattleCentury covers accepts payment, gifts, free products, or any other consideration from a person, business, or organization featured in our stories. What we cover is decided on newsworthiness alone.

Advertiser Independence

SeattleCentury doesn't currently run paid advertising (see our Advertise page). If that changes, sponsored or paid content will always be clearly labeled as such and kept visually and editorially separate from news coverage — advertisers never get input into what we cover or how we cover it.

Updates to Published Stories

A story may be updated after it publishes if a situation develops further — a closure gets a reopening date, a proposal gets a vote. That's different from a correction: an update adds what's newly known, it doesn't mean the original version was wrong. If new information instead changes the substance of what was originally reported, that's handled as a correction, with a note saying so, as described above.

Questions or Tips

If you've spotted something that looks wrong in one of our stories, or have a question about how we work, email us at [email protected] with a link to the article and what you believe is incorrect, and we'll look into it.