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From Source Link to VINI Story: Why the Feed Monitor Is Not a Copy Machine
A standards file explains how VINI uses monitored feeds for discovery while keeping third-party articles at the original publisher unless rights are cleared and VINI adds original reporting or context.
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A standards file explains how VINI uses monitored feeds for discovery while keeping third-party articles at the original publisher unless rights are cleared and VINI adds original reporting or context.
Use the references, response options, and updates before treating any contested detail as complete.
Open topic path or search related wording such as records, sources, agencies, dates, and locations.
A serious news portal can monitor many sources without becoming a copy of those sources.
What feeds are for
Feeds help editors discover public documents, official updates, court filings, source pages, press releases, agency notices, and outside reporting that may deserve follow-up. They also help readers see the source backbone behind the publication.
But a feed item is not automatically a VINI article. A monitored source can become a link in the source wire, a prompt for a records request, a brief with attribution, a correction check, or the beginning of original reporting.
What VINI does not do
VINI does not republish full third-party article bodies just because a feed is available. VINI does not remove publisher context, strip attribution, or present outside work as VINI reporting. If rights are not cleared, the original story stays with the original publisher and VINI links out.
What VINI can publish
VINI can publish original summaries, attributed briefs, records explainers, analysis, interviews, field reporting, document reviews, and follow-up questions when there is independent newsroom work. The reader should be able to tell what is original, what is a source link, what is an official record, and what remains under review.
Why this matters for search
Search should find source-linked context without pretending every matched source is a VINI-authored story. That is why the public index now separates stories, source feeds, topics, sections, contributors, desks, and source records. A result should show what matched and why.
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