Funding and revenue

Revenue does not buy approval of editorial copy and does not buy silence. That rule is in force now. It is set out in the independence charter and the commercial policy.

What is published

The rule above is published. It applies before any figure is released.

What is not published

No revenue figure is published. No patron, investor, grant, lender, or donor is named. Those particulars have not been released for this page. The group does not describe itself as funded by a source it has not named.

What a later disclosure includes

When there is something true to say, this page will be updated, with a changelog line, to include:

• the categories of revenue the group actually uses, such as advertising, reader support, or other income, and only if they are in use
• the period the figures cover
• any single source that is large enough that a reader should know about it when judging independence
• a pointer to the commercial and conflicts rules

Figures will be the group’s figures. They will not be estimates presented as accounts.

Publications

A publication may disclose its own revenue on its own site. This page does not copy those figures across and does not invent a consolidated total.