Editorial Policy

This page describes how ALFA News finds, verifies, writes and publishes its reporting. It is written to be checkable: everything below is either visible on our article pages or verifiable against the exchange filings we link.

1. What we cover

We report material disclosures filed by NSE- and BSE-listed companies. In practice that means order wins, fund raises, capacity expansions, regulatory approvals, product launches, the start of commercial production, corporate actions and quarterly results.

We do not cover rumour, unattributed "sources say" reporting, broker notes, or social-media speculation. If a company has not filed it, we do not report it.

2. Sourcing and verification

Every article originates from a single primary document: the announcement the company itself filed with the exchange. That document is linked on the article, under Source, so any reader can check our reporting against the original.

Primary source only. We do not write from another outlet's article. Where a filing is accompanied by a company press release or a management quote, we attribute it to the company by name.
Figures are not paraphrased. Values such as order size, contract duration and counterparty are taken from the filing text.
Reference financials are third-party data. Market capitalisation, revenue, profit, P/E and shareholding figures come from a third-party market data provider and are labelled as such. These numbers are stored and shown exactly as received, so that no financial figure on this site is rewritten or rounded on its way to the page.

3. Editorial review

Every ALFA News article is edited and reviewed by a member of our editorial team, and carries that editor's name in its byline. The named editor is responsible for the article's accuracy and for any correction to it.

Selection — most filings are routine and are never published. Our editors set the thresholds a filing must meet, by event type and by its size relative to the company.
Review — editors check each story's headline, figures and structure against the filing it was written from, and the standards in section 4.
Accountability — the editor in the byline answers for the story. Questions and corrections go to the address at the foot of this page.

4. Standards a story must meet before it publishes

It must originate from a filing we can link.
The headline must describe what happened, using the figures in the filing. We do not write headlines that predict share price movement.
Where a number appears, it must be traceable to either the filing or the labelled third-party data set.
Where the filing is ambiguous, the article says the filing is ambiguous rather than resolving it by guessing.

5. Separation of news and analysis

Reference financial data and any proprietary scoring appear below the reporting, under a clearly marked analysis section. Nothing in that section is a recommendation. Where we show a comparison — for example a company's price-to-earnings ratio against its sector's — we show both numbers and let readers draw their own conclusion. We do not label a security as cheap, expensive, undervalued or overvalued.

6. Advertising, sponsorship and commercial content

ALFA News is published by the company that operates the ALFA Finder alerting product, and articles carry promotions for it. Those promotions are always visibly distinct from the reporting.

We do not accept payment to publish a story, to omit a story, or to change the wording of one. No company, promoter, broker or investor relations firm can buy coverage here. If we ever publish sponsored or paid-for content it will be labelled as such, unambiguously, at the top of the item. See also Ownership & Funding.

7. Conflicts of interest

Coverage decisions are made by the materiality rules described above, applied uniformly. A company's commercial relationship with ALFA Finder Private Limited — as a subscriber or otherwise — plays no part in whether it is covered.

8. Corrections

We publish corrections rather than quietly editing. When an article is changed after publication it carries a visible Updated timestamp alongside the original publication time. Our full Corrections Policy explains how to report an error and what happens next.

9. Not investment advice

ALFA News is not registered with SEBI as a Research Analyst or Investment Adviser. Nothing published here is investment advice or a recommendation to transact in any security. Readers should make their own decisions or consult a SEBI-registered adviser.

10. Changes to this policy

This policy is maintained by the ALFA News editorial team. Questions or challenges to it can be sent to info@alfafinder.com.