What Our Editors Are Responsible For
GYOnlineNG covers Nigerian music, Nollywood and the business around African entertainment. Our standard is simple: readers should be able to tell what we know, what we were told, what we calculated, and what we think.
Reporting, Analysis and Opinion
A reported fact is not the same thing as an interpretation. We try to keep the line visible.
When a company, artist, label, distributor, platform or institution makes a claim, we identify it as a claim and look for supporting evidence. When the evidence does not settle a question, we say so. When we make an inference from several pieces of evidence, it is presented as analysis rather than dressed up as a quoted fact.
Sources
We prefer primary material: official reports, filings, public records, direct statements, published data and documents that can be examined by readers. Reputable reporting and specialist sources are useful when the primary record is unavailable or incomplete.
A source being widely repeated does not make it automatically reliable. Where an important number or allegation rests on a secondary source, we try to make that limitation clear.
Data and Claims
A box-office gross is not the same thing as producer profit. Paid admissions are not the same thing as unique viewers. A stream count does not automatically tell us how much an artist was paid.
Those distinctions are not technical decoration. They can change the meaning of a story, so we try to define the measure before using it to make an argument.
Tools and Editorial Responsibility
We use software where it helps with the work. That can include transcription, research organisation, editing and, sometimes, AI-assisted tools. The tool is part of the workflow; it is not the reporter.
Generated material is not treated as a source. Important claims are checked against the underlying reporting or documents before publication.
Corrections
When we find a material factual error, we correct it. When a correction changes the meaning of an important claim, we try to make that change clear rather than silently replacing the old wording.
Editorial Independence
Commercial relationships should not decide our conclusions. That does not mean we promise perfect neutrality. It means the conclusion should follow from the reporting and evidence available to us.
We can be critical of a company, artist, platform, label or institution when the evidence supports it, and we can give credit when the evidence supports it.
What We Will Not Pretend
We will not pretend to know what the public record does not show. We will not turn speculation into certainty because certainty makes a better headline. And we will not treat polished language as proof that an argument is correct.
For the way we handle quantitative claims and conflicting datasets, see Data & Methodology.