Editorial standards
These are the standards every Arizona Inquirer story is held to. If you think a story missed one, write to [email protected].
The Arizona Inquirer is independently owned and published by Pesach Lattin, in Phoenix, Arizona. No political party, campaign, PAC, candidate, government agency or company owns any part of it or directs its coverage.
The Inquirer is reader-supported. It runs no paid placement in editorial. If a piece is ever sponsored, it will say so at the top, along with what the sponsor did and did not control.
We do not endorse candidates or ballot measures. Every party, officeholder and campaign gets the same treatment: we quote what they say about themselves and check it against the record.
Records come first: filings, court documents, campaign finance reports, public records requests and recordings. We name sources whenever we can. We grant anonymity only when a source faces real risk, we have verified what they told us, and we tell readers why the source is not named.
People and organizations we write about are contacted before publication, wherever practicable, and given a fair chance to respond. Their response runs in the story, or the story says they declined or did not answer.
When we get something wrong, we fix it in the open. Every change after publication gets a dated update note at the bottom of the story and is listed on our corrections page. Send corrections to [email protected] or call 505-932-9060.
Pesach Lattin is also the publisher of ADOTAT and the principal of ANIA, a privately held, independent intelligence firm that is not a government agency. Any relationship that touches a story is disclosed in that story, in a short note at the end.
We do not publish the home addresses of officials, private citizens or anyone else, and we do not publish threats in ways that help the people making them.
We use software, including AI tools, for transcription, document search and drafting support. A human reports, verifies and stands behind every published word.