This page explains how Mercearia Portuguesa’s news coverage is produced, reviewed and corrected. We publish it because readers deserve to know exactly how a news source works before they trust it.
Sourcing
Our news articles are based on reporting from named Portuguese outlets (such as Público, Correio da Manhã and RTP Notícias) and English-language Portugal-focused outlets (such as The Portugal News), along with wire and broadcast sources. Our editors write original articles drawing on this reporting rather than reproducing it.
How our articles are written
Mercearia Portuguesa uses AI (Anthropic’s Claude) to draft short, original summaries — typically 150–220 words — of stories reported elsewhere. The AI is instructed to explain what happened and why it matters to someone living in Portugal, in its own words, without copying sentences from the source beyond a brief quoted phrase where necessary. It is also instructed to skip stories that aren’t genuinely relevant to foreign residents of Portugal, and to decline to summarise anything it can’t respond to responsibly from the input it’s given.
This means our articles are intentionally short summaries pointing you to the full original report — not attempts to replace or out-report the outlets we cite. If you want full depth on a story, the source link is always there.
Editorial review
Each of our five coverage areas — Politics, Business & Finance, Lifestyle & Entertainment, Education, and Travel — has a named editor who is responsible for that section, credited as the author on every article in it. Editors and the site’s editorial team review published articles and can correct, update or remove them.
Images
Photographs used to illustrate news articles are licensed stock photography (via Pexels), credited to the photographer under each lead image. They illustrate the general subject of a story (for example, a coastal town, a government building, a classroom) and are not photographs of the specific people or events described unless captioned otherwise.
Author profiles
Our named editors are the editorial personas responsible for their sections and are credited transparently as such — the portraits on their author profile pages are AI-generated illustrative portraits, not photographs of real individuals, and this page discloses that plainly. We chose this over an anonymous “staff” byline so that readers always know which section, and which standard of review, a given article belongs to.
Corrections
See our Corrections Policy for how we handle and disclose mistakes.
What we don’t do
- We don’t run advertising, sponsored content, or affiliate links in our news coverage.
- We don’t publish sports results, celebrity gossip, or crime-blotter items with no relevance to residents of Portugal.
- We don’t invent facts, quotes, or figures beyond what the cited source reports.
Questions
If you have a question about how a specific article was produced or sourced, contact us — we’re glad to explain.