The rules that survive a fast morning.

A source is a named issuer and a dated document we can open: a bulletin, a filing, a court list, a vendor advisory, a register entry. A journalist’s recap can point us to that document. We still open the filing itself.

When only one document exists, the item can still run if the issuer is the authority on that fact. We mark a line unconfirmed when a second expected paper has not appeared, or when two offices disagree on the date or the scope.

Unconfirmed items never take the top slot. They sit lower, with the gap named in the sentence, so a reader can decide how much weight to give them.

We cite the bulletin, the order, the consultation or the advisory. If a newsroom has already written a helpful explainer, we may add that link after the primary one. The explainer never stands alone.

Page numbers and clause numbers go in our notes even when they do not fit the letter. That file is how we answer a reader who writes at 09:00 and asks which paragraph we meant.

At 06:40 we stop gathering. Anything that arrives after that waits for a Beat Watch note or for tomorrow, unless it is a safety advisory with a patch window that starts before noon.

The letter stays short because a longer letter becomes a second inbox. We would rather send six items a reader finishes than twelve items a reader skims and then doubts.

The skip line is drafted in this window, while we still remember why a file felt thin. That memory fades by 09:00. Writing it down belongs in the edit.

When we get a fact wrong, we fix the web copy the same day and stamp the time. The next morning letter carries a separate Correction line at the top, written in plain language: what we said, what stands now, and the document that settled it.

A public log of those lines lives with this page. We do not bury a fix inside a later item. Readers who only skim the top of the letter still see the repair.