Content Review Process
Last updated June 3, 2026 · Maintained by the Algeria Compass editorial team
The stages every page passes through from research to publication, who signs off, and the permissions at each stage.
This page describes the workflow every piece of content follows before it appears on Algeria Compass, and the review and publishing permissions attached to each stage. The process exists to ensure that nothing is published without being researched, verified and reviewed.
The stages
1. Commission and research. A topic is defined around the questions travellers actually ask, and researched against primary and authoritative sources following our Research Methodology.
2. Drafting. A writer with relevant regional knowledge produces the draft, distinguishing fact, judgement and opinion and recording the sources used.
3. Fact-checking. The editorial review function verifies every material claim independently of the writer, to the standard in our Fact-Checking Policy. Unverifiable claims are removed or reframed.
4. Editorial review. The page is reviewed for accuracy, fairness, cultural and safety sensitivity, clarity and completeness, and for compliance with our Editorial Policy.
5. Publication. Once review is complete the page is dated and published. Publication requires review sign-off; a page cannot go live unchecked.
6. Maintenance. After publication the page enters a review schedule (see our Content Update Policy) and is revisited and re-verified periodically.
Permissions and authority
We separate the ability to write, to review and to publish:
- Writers research and draft, and propose content, but do not sign off their own work.
- The editorial review function verifies facts, reviews content, and holds final pre-publication sign-off and post-publication correction authority.
- Publishing of a page requires completed review; updates to a published page re-enter review when the change is material.
Why writing and review are separate
Keeping the checker distinct from the writer is the single most effective safeguard against unsupported claims and baked-in assumptions reaching readers. It is a deliberate structural choice, not a formality.
As the team grows
Today these functions are performed by the Algeria Compass editorial team and its review function. As individuals join, named writers, editors and reviewers will be attached to specific stages and credited on the content they produce or check, while the separation of writing, review and publishing permissions remains.
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