How the WeNepal newsroom works

WeNepal is written by a newsroom team that uses automated tools for part of the work. This page walks through what happens between an event in Nepal and the story on your screen. The formal rules are in our editorial policy and our AI policy.

Every WeNepal story is built from public sources and the WeNepal research team. In practice that means:

• Official primary sources, such as government and ministry notices, the Nepal Gazette, court orders, Nepal Rastra Bank figures and other official releases.
• Public reporting in Nepal and abroad, which we use to find and cross-check events, never to copy.
• Our own checks against those sources.

Each source has a trust score that goes down when it is repeatedly wrong and up when it holds. A social media post counts as a source only when the account is verified as the person or institution it claims to be.

We keep every story's sources on record for review and corrections. We do not name or republish other news outlets; we write in our own words. Under each story you will see the line "From public sources and the WeNepal research team".

A story starts in one of two ways:

1. A staff member builds it, writing and editing it in our newsroom tools.
2. Our tools prepare a draft when two or more independent reports, or one official primary source, cover the same event.

Either way the format is the same: a short summary, three key points and a line on why it matters. The Nepali and English editions are written separately, each in its own natural order, rather than one being translated from the other.

The writing rules are strict. Use only facts found in the sources. Every number, name, date and quote must appear in at least one source. Never copy a sentence, a headline, a photo or a video.

Before any reader sees it, every draft passes a set of checks:

A draft that fails a check is fixed once automatically. If it still fails, it is not published.

Some subjects carry more risk of harm: elections, court cases, deaths and violence, communal issues, named individuals (especially people facing allegations), health emergencies and anything involving minors. Stories on these subjects are published only when they also pass stricter checks:

1. At least two independent sources, or an official primary source such as a gazette notice, a court order or an official press release.
2. Neutral attribution ("police said…").
3. No accusation stated as fact.
4. No graphic detail, and nothing that could prejudice a case still before the courts.
5. Minors are never named.

A sensitive story that fails is fixed once automatically. If it still fails, it is dropped.

Our staff build, edit and approve stories. Some routine stories that pass every check are prepared and published automatically. Editors check a sample of those automatic stories every day and can edit, correct or unpublish any story at any time. Any editor or engineer can pause the whole newsroom at once.

You can read more about each on their author pages: Dev Sagar and LacNova AI.

• Invent a quote, a number, a name or a date.
• Publish a sensitive story that has not passed the strict checks.
• Generate an image of a real person or clone a real person's voice.
• Copy another outlet's paragraphs, headlines, photos or video.
• Publish an automatic story without the LacNova AI byline.

Some of our videos use a synthetic voice. Where we publish them on YouTube, Facebook, Instagram or TikTok, we turn on the platform's own setting for altered or synthetic content.

If a story is wrong, we correct it and say so on the story, with a dated note that explains what changed. Major corrections are also posted on the channels where the story appeared and listed on our public corrections page. A story that should not have been published is retracted, not quietly deleted.

Because sources stay on record, editors can trace where an error came from, and sources that are wrong repeatedly are dropped. To ask for a correction or a right of reply, use the contact page or write to corrections@wenepal.com. Our corrections policy sets out how requests are handled.

No party, government, company or sponsor decides what we cover or how. Sponsored content is always labelled and never appears in politics or election coverage. Technology infrastructure: Powered by Lacspace; our technology provider has no say over what we publish. More in About WeNepal and Why WeNepal.

Our newsroom staff build, edit and approve stories, with automated tools helping to find, sort and draft. Some routine stories are prepared and published automatically by LacNova AI, WeNepal's own newsroom AI, after passing every check.

LacNova AI is the name of WeNepal's own newsroom AI. It appears as the byline on stories that were prepared and published automatically, so readers can always tell them apart from stories handled by staff.

Dev Sagar is WeNepal's newsroom editor. The Dev Sagar byline appears on stories built, edited or approved by our newsroom staff, and Dev Sagar answers for them.

We keep every source on record for review and corrections, but we do not name other news outlets, and we write in our own words. Official bodies are named when they are the source of their own statements, for example "police said".

Stories on elections, courts, deaths, communal issues, named individuals, minors and health emergencies need at least two independent sources or an official primary source, neutral attribution and no accusation stated as fact. Minors are never named. A story that fails is fixed once automatically, then dropped.

Use the contact page or write to corrections@wenepal.com. Corrections are made on the story with a dated note, and major ones are listed on our public corrections page.