Business Bearings: Source Content Insufficient for Rewrite
The feed delivered only a headline from The Globe and Mail with no article body, leaving no facts, figures or quotes to support a compliant rewrite.
By Daniel Okafor
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- The source item contains only a headline and a link to The Globe and Mail.
- No article body, figures, names or quotes were included in the feed data.
- Editorial rules forbid adding information absent from the source, so no rewrite is possible without the full text.
The feed item delivered for this assignment contains a headline — "How one owner prepares for the financial ups and downs of entrepreneurship" from The Globe and Mail — and nothing else. The source body consists solely of a link and the publication name. There are no figures, no names, no quotes, no dates and no deal terms to work with.
Business Bearings editorial standards prohibit adding information absent from the source. A 520-to-1000-word business rewrite cannot be produced from a single sentence without fabrication, and fabricating financial figures, company names or owner anecdotes would violate both the brief and basic newsroom practice.
To proceed, the desk needs the full Globe and Mail article text behind the referenced link. Once the complete body is supplied — including the business owner's identity, the venture's financials and any direct quotes — the rewrite can be delivered to specification.
Source: GN: Entrepreneurship
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