How sponsored content works
The rules that keep paid articles and our reporting from ever being confused for each other — published, so you can hold us to them.
Regulatory News accepts paid articles from companies serving the regulatory and quality community. They fund the publication. They are worth funding it with only if readers can always tell what is paid and what is newsroom — so the separation below is enforced in the publishing system itself, not left to judgment on deadline.
Labeling
- Every sponsored article is tagged Sponsored where a section name would appear, and opens with a disclosure naming the paying company: “Paid content provided by [sponsor]. The Regulatory News newsroom was not involved in its creation.”
- The byline names the sponsoring organization — never a Regulatory News journalist.
- In the RSS feed, sponsored headlines carry a [Sponsored] prefix. In structured data, the article is marked with the sponsor’s identity, and its links tell search engines the placement was paid (
rel="sponsored").
What sponsorship cannot buy
- No sponsored article appears in the hero, Top Stories, Don’t Miss, or the topic sections — those are editorial judgment, and they are not for sale at any price.
- Sponsored articles appear where the whole archive appears — the Latest rail, site search, the feed and the sitemap — always labeled.
- Sponsorship buys no influence over our reporting. Coverage of a sponsor’s products, competitors, or regulatory troubles is unaffected, and a sponsor cannot preview or veto a news story.
Editorial review
- Every sponsored article is reviewed before publication. We require claims to be sourced, we edit for clarity, and we decline content that is misleading, promotional past usefulness, or wrong.
- Declined submissions are not charged; if payment was already made, it is refunded in full.
- Corrections policy applies to sponsored articles exactly as to our own: errors are corrected visibly and logged.
About our publisher
Regulatory News is published by Regulatory Leadership Partners, which also operates Regulatory Academy and the other platforms in the Regulatory Ecosystem. When one of those sister businesses promotes itself here, it follows every rule on this page — labeled as sponsored, named as the source, kept out of editorial slots — because a house ad is still an ad.
Questions
About a specific sponsored article: editor@regulatorynews.com. About running one: see Advertise.