How Dreamaica labels original, curated and partner material
A plain-language guide to the labels readers will see across Dreamaica News.
Dreamaica uses publication labels so readers can tell how a story reached the site and who is responsible for the underlying reporting.
Original Dreamaica journalism is reporting produced or commissioned by Dreamaica. A Dreamaica multi-source brief is written by the newsroom from more than one identified source. Both require editorial review before publication.
A curated source brief summarizes a useful item published elsewhere and sends the reader to the original source. It must not look like Dreamaica conducted the original reporting. A partner release is supplied by an organization and carries a visible disclosure. Licensed or syndicated material identifies the publisher and the applicable licence.
Archive records describe preserved documents, photographs, oral histories or catalogued objects. Media records organize external or owned film, audio and interactive material. These records identify rights and provenance where known.
No incoming feed, submitted URL, press release or media link can publish automatically. Every item enters a private review queue. An editor must check its provenance, duplication status, category, attribution, rights and public value before creating or updating a published record.
Corrections and substantial updates are attached to the article record. Reading time is calculated from the stored body rather than typed into a card. Publication dates, source lists and homepage placements are generated from the same editorial record used by search, RSS and the sitemap.
No external source was required for this institutional record. Public multi-source and curated records cannot pass the publication gate without their required sources.
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