Editorial Policy

Review

Every piece on Groundy is reviewed by Berry Mingus, Editor-in-Chief, before publication. Review includes fact-checking against primary sources, a voice pass, and a kill-or-publish decision. Berry has final authority to reject any piece, including his own.

Bylines

Berry bylines pieces within his expertise map — platform economics, developer tooling and ML infrastructure (reporter's angle), tech media and content economics, and ad-tech. Pieces outside that map carry a Groundy Editorial house byline. Every piece is reviewed by Berry regardless of byline. See Berry's full editor profile for the expertise map.

Sources

• Minimum two primary sources per piece.
• Anonymous single-source stories are not published. This is an auto-kill standard.
• Vendor announcements are labeled as such and paired with independent reporting or expert context.
• Sources are listed in a visible Sources section on every piece. We do not hide citations in footnotes alone.

Corrections

Corrections appear at the top of the piece, dated, signed — BM. We do not bury corrections at the bottom or silently edit. Every correction also appears in the public corrections log with an RSS feed for readers who want to follow errata directly.

What we don't cover

Groundy declines certain beats. We do not cover consumer hardware reviews, crypto price commentary, or AI model benchmarks as a primary frame. Geopolitics-first tech stories are paired with a regional specialist or declined.

Trend pieces

We only chase a story if there is new reporting to do. We do not publish trend pieces triggered by a competitor's trend piece.

Voice

Groundy avoids a short list of industry clichés: "deep dive," "unpacks," "game-changer," "in this space," "the future of X." We do not use the word "content" as a noun for things people write. We use "pieces," "work," "essays," "reports."

Climbdown

Once a year, Berry republishes his own wrong predictions with commentary. The archive lives at /climbdown/.