What the Standard will cover — and how to hold us to it
A desk-by-desk guide to this paper: what each section is for, where the coverage starts, and the standards every story is filed under.
Surrey News is the front door — the desk for what happened in the city today. City Hall follows the council calendar and the decisions made on it. Development tracks what is proposed, approved and built. Education covers the schools and the people in them. Sports starts with local leagues. Opinion is always signed and always labelled.
Every desk works from the same rules: documents before characterizations, named sources wherever possible, and a clear line between reporting and opinion. Wire summaries that point to another outlet's work will say so and link to it.
This first edition is deliberately about the paper itself rather than the city — we would rather open with an honest introduction than with filler dressed up as news. The reporting starts as the newsroom files. If you want it delivered, the Stay in the Know newsletter goes out every weekday.