Editorial standards and corrections

Where our material comes from

We are an aggregator. Every HIT.TV story begins with reporting published by an established news organisation, and the full list of the publications we monitor is on our About page. We do not have reporters in the field and we never present ourselves as though we do. A HIT.TV story is a summary of someone else’s work, written to be quick to read.

We prefer stories that more than one organisation is reporting, and where several outlets cover the same event we publish one story rather than five. A story carried by a single source is treated with more caution than one carried by several.

Attribution

Where a story rests on another organisation’s reporting, we link to the original at the foot of the article. We would rather you read the source in full than treat our summary as the last word, and an aggregator that does not send readers back to the people doing the expensive work has not earned its place.

On our video channel the presenter speaks with HIT’s own voice and does not claim another outlet’s reporting as ours. Institutions named inside a story — a central bank, a court, a company — are named as they are reported.

What automation does, and what it cannot do

Our stories are written by AI, working from those published reports, and our presenters are synthetic. That is stated on every author page and on our About page, and it is relevant here for one reason: automated writing produces fluent, confident text whether or not it is right. We treat that as the central risk of the way we work rather than a detail.

So the system is constrained rather than trusted. It writes only from material it has been given, prices quoted on air are checked against market data before they are spoken, and copy that fails those checks does not go out. None of this makes the output infallible, and we do not claim it does.

What we choose not to cover

We steer away from tragedy and crime reporting that adds distress without adding understanding. We also cap how much of any day is given over to markets, so the service stays a picture of the world rather than a ticker with headlines attached.

Independence

We do not accept payment to publish a story, to cover a company favourably, or to leave a story out. We do not run paid placement disguised as editorial. If anything on this site is ever sponsored, it will say so plainly on the item itself.

Nothing we publish is investment, legal, medical or tax advice. Our markets and crypto coverage is journalism about companies and prices, not a recommendation to buy or sell.

Corrections

If you think a story is wrong, tell us through the contact form and say which story and what is wrong with it. We read everything that arrives.

• We amend the story itself rather than quietly deleting it, so the record stays where the reader found it.
• Where a correction is material — a name, a number, a claim about what someone did — we say what changed.
• Where a story cannot be stood up at all, we take it down rather than leave it standing with a note.

If you are the subject of a story and believe it is unfair or inaccurate, use the same route and say so. We would rather hear it from you than not hear it.

Who to contact

HIT.TV is published by TCOM Services Inc; the full company details are on our About page and our contact page. Corrections, complaints, press enquiries and right-of-reply requests all go to the same form and are read by the same people.