How Sitework Journal picks stories, checks them, and keeps paid work visibly separate from reporting. Issued for publication, and meant to be checked against what we actually run.
The beat
Estimating and takeoff, project delivery, materials and methods, jobsite safety and the technology moving into all four. We write for the estimator, the PM and the superintendent — the people who have to make a drawing work in the ground. If a piece would not survive being read on a tailgate, it needs another pass.
How we handle numbers
- Unit costs, productivity rates and material prices are attributed to whoever published them, with the region and the date attached. A cost without a place and a year is not a cost.
- Where a figure comes from a manufacturer or a vendor, we say so in the sentence, not in a footnote.
- Code and standards references name the edition. A requirement from a superseded edition is a different requirement, and we do not blur the two.
- When something could not be confirmed, the piece says it could not be confirmed.
- No invented quotes, no composite projects passed off as real ones, no testimonials from people who do not exist.
Where commercial stops
This publication is funded commercially, part of it by paid partner content. That side of the business has no route into the newsroom. A partner does not read a piece before it runs, cannot buy favourable coverage and cannot get unfavourable coverage pulled.
Paid work is its own product and it looks like it: Partner content label, disclosure panel, out of the editorial feed, outbound links marked rel="sponsored". We decline paid work that is off-beat for this title or that would mislead somebody about how a product performs.
Software in production
We use software, including AI, for research and production work. Nothing is published unread. An editor is responsible for every piece and so is this publication, whatever tool produced the first version.
Corrections and revisions
When the facts move, the article moves with them, and a substantive revision is dated on the page. Timestamps on unchanged articles stay where they are.
Questions about any of this: editor@siteworkjournal.com.