Launched beta at publishingpolicy.org

PublishingPolicy is live at publishingpolicy.org.

The core of the platform is a policy builder wizard — a guided, multi-step process that walks publishers through creating a real publishing policy. It's built around three pillars: Identity (who you are and what you publish), Commitments (the specific standards you'll uphold), and Accountability (how you'll handle it when things go wrong).

The real power is in the sector templates. There are 31 of them, spanning 7 categories — news journalism, science and research, entertainment media, education, business and marketing, community and social, and specialized publishing. Each template comes pre-loaded with commitments relevant to that sector, so a local newspaper isn't wading through standards designed for academic journals.

The certification system has four tiers: Declared, Committed, Verified, and Exemplary. Declared means you've published a policy. Exemplary means you've proven you live by it. The bar goes up, not sideways — no "gold" and "platinum" marketing tiers, just increasing evidence of accountability.

What ties it all together is the connection to malpublish.org. The commitments a publisher selects in their policy automatically generate malpublish definitions — specific ways they can fall short of their own standards. It's not an external body defining malpractice. It's publishers defining it for themselves, and then being held to it.