Questions and answers

No. It publishes explanatory articles about how digital journalism is made. There is no course, no programme, no cohort, no enrolment, no assessment and no certificate. Nobody here can confirm that a reader has completed anything, because there is nothing to complete.

No. It awards nothing at all, and it holds no accreditation from any body. Reading these pages confers no status, no credential and no recognition of any kind, in Ireland or anywhere else.

No such claim is made. This desk has no relationship with any employer or commissioning editor, makes no introductions and has no influence on anyone’s hiring or publication decisions.

No. Media law, copyright, defamation, contempt and data-protection duties differ between jurisdictions and change over time. Pages describe the general shape of public rules and direct you to the current text; for your own situation, take advice from a qualified professional.

No. Coimisiún na Meán, the Press Council of Ireland, the Office of the Press Ombudsman and other bodies are named on this site only as public reference points. No membership, recognition, accreditation or supervision is claimed or exists.

Adults who encounter these mechanisms at work or as readers: journalists and editors adopting new tools, students and teachers looking for a neutral explanation, communications and policy staff who need to understand how coverage now travels, and readers who want to know why a feed looks the way it does. No technical background is assumed, and every unavoidable term is defined in the lexicon.

No. Every page is free to read without an account, a payment or an email address, there is no wall of any kind, and nothing on the site is for sale. There is no mailing list, no membership and no paid tier, and the funding statement on the project page would be updated before any change took effect.

Against a published hierarchy: primary legal texts first, then official guidance and decisions, then official statistics and transparency reports, then technical standards, then peer-reviewed research, then described professional practice. Trade commentary and vendor material are used only to establish that a claim was made.

No. Product landscapes change within months, and a recommendation made now would mislead most readers by the time they arrived. Pages describe classes of tool by the artefact they produce rather than naming commercial products.

Because this site does not publish invented individuals and does not have the access to verify real ones. Practices are described as practices, which is more honest and more useful than a story about someone a reader cannot check.

Worked examples are arithmetic illustrations in neutral units — items, words, minutes, hours and percentages. They demonstrate a calculation and are not measurements of any particular newsroom. There are no monetary figures anywhere on the site.

Every page reaches a full review at least once every twelve months, and sooner when a cited instrument changes materially, a reader reports an error or a described practice has visibly moved.

Machine assistance is limited to mechanical work: spelling and consistency checks, searching within collected material, and terminology checks across pages. No page contains generated prose published substantially as generated, and all artwork is hand-written vector code.

Email the address on the contact page with the subject line “Correction”, quoting the exact sentence, explaining what is wrong and, where possible, citing a source. Every substantive request receives a reply, including those that are not accepted.

The page is amended in place and carries a note recording what was wrong, what it now says and when the change was made. Where the original wording might have been quoted, it is retained in the note. Pages are not silently edited or deleted.

Yes, with attribution to Newsroom Horizon and a link to the page. Sections are numbered so a citation can point to a specific section, and it helps to cite the date you read the page, since pages are amended.

Ask first through the contact page. A translation that drifts from the original wording on a legal or verification point can mislead, so the request will normally come with conditions about accuracy and about linking to the original.

No measurement or advertising tag is installed. Storage is limited to your acknowledgement of the entry notice and your choice on the consent bar, both of which are described on the cookie page and can be cleared there.

It declares default storage states before anything else runs, so that all advertising signals are denied from the first moment of the first page view. They remain denied permanently. The measurement signal can be granted by choice, but nothing currently reads it.

None. No hosted fonts, no content delivery network, no embedded video, no social widgets, no analytics endpoint. The stylesheet, the script and the three vector graphics are all served from this domain.

In Ireland, the Data Protection Commission. Its contact details are publicly available and you may complain to it at any time; you do not need to contact this desk first, though it is usually quicker.

It is built to be: skip link, semantic landmarks, one level-one heading per page, visible focus outlines, captioned tables, text alternatives on every image and a reduced-motion rule. The target is WCAG 2.1 level AA as a working standard, no external audit has been carried out, and the three known limitations are listed on the accessibility page rather than left for a reader to discover.

Almost entirely. Reading, navigation, tables and the expandable question sections all work, because the last of those uses native browser elements rather than scripting. The automation-share calculator produces no result without scripting, but its three formulas are printed on the page so the arithmetic can be done by hand.