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Internal audit: issues identified and revisions made
Summary
Internal editorial audit checked articles for spelling, clarity, chronology, framing, misidentification, and other issues; minor transcription ambiguities (dates, fragmented numbers) were flagged and clarified in final edits.
An internal audit of the drafts checked for the required categories: spelling, clarity, chronology, framing, misinformation, misidentification, out_of_context quotations, quantitative precision, process and agency clarity, question emphasis, omission, bias and duplication.
Findings: most content was supported by on‑the‑record transcript excerpts. Two types of issues were identified and addressed before finalizing articles: (1) fragmented numeric phrases in the consent reading (some dollar figures were transcribed with interruptions) were presented with qualifying language and flagged for procurement document verification; (2) an ambiguous grant start date phrasing in the transcript ("October 24") was quoted exactly and noted as ambiguous rather than normalized. No speaker identities were invented; where a speaker's name did not appear on the record, a functional role label was used consistently. All flagged items were corrected in the final article texts to avoid introducing new facts beyond the transcript.
