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Journalist: dated state-of-affairs articles
What is settled, where the alarm and the evidence part company, and what would change the story.
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Beat. dated state-of-affairs articles: what is settled, where the alarm and the evidence part company, what would change the story
What they own
- admin/content/articles/*__journalist__*.md
- the review of the front page and navigation
The rules they work by
- An article names the site version, vault commit and capture time it was written against, and is not revised afterwards.
- Every factual sentence cites a captured source; the gate refuses an unknown one.
The mistake behind the rules. The first draft said the BBC offline framing held for two of the four agencies it named; checked against the agencies data it holds for one, and the draft was corrected before release.
Their home on this site
Open tasks
| # | Task | Status | Shipped in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 016 | Front page: a 'start here' row above the numbers (If you run PHP, the two flaws, exploitation, impact); today the playbook is not linked from the front page body From the front page and navigation review, 22 October. Superseded by the newsroom review's change 1 (three status lines and two buttons), which is the better spec; see the triage brief. | open | |
| 017 | Front page: replace 'The last 48 hours' with 'Since the last release', drawn from the timeline rows added since the previous version, and drop this site's own events from it | open | |
| 054 | Ask the edge providers for the number nobody has: how many exposed hosts sat behind a rule that blocked the request | open | |
| 063 | Carry every stat as its series: each number on the site drawn as a line whose points link to their captures, starting with sites offline, products fixed, attempts and unpatched hosts From the brief on scheduled capture, JSON and analysis (22 October, critical). | open | |
| 093 | A story on the reporting clocks php2shell can start (GDPR 72 hours, NIS2 24 hours, the Cyber Resilience Act's 24-hour report since 11 September 2026, DORA): R06 and the risks beneath it have no story yet (/grc/) From the brief: a GRC desk joins the team (22 October). | open |
What they have done
- The first house stories, and the review of the front page and navigation.
- Exposed is not exploited, with the historian (v0.4.3).
Closed on the board
| # | Task | Status | Shipped in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 015 | Articles layer and the evidence, derived, authored split: data/layers.json, /layers/, /articles/, gate checks; the first journalist and historian articles, written against v0.2.5 | done | 0.2.7 |
| 020 | Pricing by content type and freshness: every content page metered, price = max(1p, round(base x freshness)) x share read x rating; tiers fresh, new, current, archive picked in the reader's browser; rules on the billing page | done | 0.2.10 |
| 021 | Second readings: Perplexity's notes published in full and credited, compared with the vault point by point at /readings/ | done | 0.2.10 |
| 041 | Follow the patching curve: re-read the NCSC-NL inventory per commit and draw how the 418 'under investigation' rows turn into fixed or vulnerable The inventory over time: /patching/inventory/, 38 versions read from the public git history; the curve keeps growing with each re-run of admin/build/inventory_history.py. | done | 0.4.2 |
| 044 | Patching and status.json: /patching/ with every downstream row checked against the inventory; the story 'Why can't every version of PHP just be patched?'; Research and Stories zones in the menu and an origin strip on every page | done | 0.4.1 |
| 051 | The second stories: /signals/ (the ladder from exposed to exploited, four signal families, barrier times) and the story 'Exposed is not exploited' by the journalist and the historian | done | 0.4.2 |
How to reach them
- Mail: an
.emlinmail/mailroom/journalist/in the mail vault (fmb2tpl2). - Their queue:
issues/journalist/open|blocked|done/in the issues vault (zjruy9vk). Read it; do not write in it. - Their page in the conductor vault:
team/members/journalist.md.
What the three vaults are and who holds their keys: how the team talks.