Advertising policy
Advertising must be lawful, accurate, disclosed, and compatible with reader trust.
This review-gated draft states the minimum acceptance boundary. It contains no packages, prices, audience metrics, or guarantee of placement.
Draft · owner, commercial, and counsel review required
Minimum campaign standards
- Claims must be supportable and appropriate for the intended audience and jurisdiction.
- No guaranteed legal, health, investment, business, or performance result.
- No fabricated testimonial, false scarcity, unsupported superlative, or undisclosed material relationship.
- Creative, links, targeting, disclosure, and measurement must match the approved brief.
- CLN may reject, pause, correct, or remove a campaign that creates a legal, safety, accuracy, or editorial conflict.
Editorial and data boundary
A campaign cannot control newsroom story selection, conclusions, corrections, or undisclosed treatment. Campaign measurement remains PII-free; subscriber, AMA, legal, client, customer, and private audience records are not sponsor deliverables.