How WorldEye News reports

WorldEye News is the news desk of WorldEye, the live public-camera globe at worldeye.app. It publishes original reporting on the subjects the site itself watches: the public camera network, significant weather events, satellite and geospatial technology, transportation, and the tools people use to see the world in real time.

News stories are kept separate from the WorldEye Blog's evergreen guides and explainers. A story is published as news only when it reports something that happened or is scheduled to happen — an opening, an event, a change — and it is flagged as news in our publishing system, which is what places it on the /news page, in the news feed and in the news sitemap.

Our primary instrument is WorldEye's own network: more than 74,000 public cameras, live flight, satellite, weather and hazard feeds, and the datasets the site publishes openly (including the Live Camera Index and the monthly camera-network reports). When a WorldEye News story states a number, it comes from that network's data or from a cited primary source — a government agency, a resort, an operator — never from another outlet's reporting.

The primary sources our reporting and trackers rely on include the U.S. Geological Survey (earthquakes), NOAA and the National Weather Service (weather and storm data), the National Hurricane Center, the NOAA Storm Prediction Center (tornado reports), state departments of transportation (road cameras and conditions), and resort announcements compiled by OnTheSnow (ski opening dates). Every news story ends with a Sources list naming what its claims rest on.

Claims are checked against the source before publication, and anything that has not happened yet is labelled as what it is: a projection, a forecast or an announced target, with its source and the date it was reported. Opening dates move with the weather; eruption windows are forecasts, not schedules; camera counts are counted from the catalogue, not estimated.

Publication dates are real. A story's date is the day it was published, updates change its modification date, and stories are never backdated or re-dated to look fresher than they are. For the same reason, our news sitemap lists a story only while it is genuinely new — within 48 hours of publication, the window Google News specifies.

If a story is wrong, we fix the story — not the date. Corrections are made in place, the modification date is updated, and a material correction is noted on the story itself. To report an error, contact us via the contact page and name the story; corrections from readers are checked against the same primary sources the story cites.

We do not republish wire copy or other outlets' reporting. We do not fabricate events, sources, quotes, authors or dates. We do not publish press-release rewrites as reporting, and we do not present generated text as eyewitness fact — when a story describes what a camera shows, a person has looked at the camera.

Every WorldEye News story carries a named human byline. The publication's author is Jameson Lythgoe, WorldEye's founder and publisher — there is no anonymous 'staff' byline on news stories.

WorldEye News is published on the open web with NewsArticle structured data, a news sitemap and an RSS feed, in line with the technical guidelines of Google News and Bing News. Inclusion in those services is decided by Google and Microsoft respectively and is never guaranteed; meeting the technical bar is our job, the decision is theirs.