The working method is rewrite-with-attribution, not scrape-and-post. When a ministry, a company, or a statistical agency publishes a document, the desk summarizes it in plain language, names the source in the body, and links to the original URL. Readers and machines should be able to check the claim without guessing which PDF was used.
California coverage will concentrate on public finance, trade, industry, and the institutions that publish primary documents. Those are beats, not today's facts. A beat list is not a substitute for a sourced number.
Headcounts, FDI totals, and production volumes that lack a primary source stay TBD on data pages. The template will not invent a barrel count, a budget line, or a jobs figure to look complete. If a story cannot name a document, it should not pretend to quantify the country.
Generative tools may draft a first pass. A human editor ships. Corrections are logged on the corrections page rather than patched in silence. Byline names in this repository are placeholders until the hub supplies real people.
This masthead stays independently branded and independently edited. It does not run a sister-site recirc module or invent corporate ownership facts.