Editorial Policy

Effective Date: May 5, 2026
Last Updated: May 5, 2026

This Editorial Policy explains how content is researched, written, reviewed, updated, and corrected at Daily Reading (kalmausam.in/, the "Site"). We publish this policy publicly because trust is the most important thing we owe our readers, our advertisers, and the platforms (including Google AdSense and Google Ad Manager) on which our content appears.

1. Mission and Audience

Daily Reading’s mission is to make U.S. mental health care less confusing for the people who need it. Our primary audience is adults navigating their own care, supporting a family member, or trying to understand benefits, costs, and options. We also write for clinicians, students, advocates, and journalists looking for plain-language explanations of how the system works.

2. What We Publish — and What We Do Not

We publish:

  • Explanatory articles on mental health care, insurance, and adjacent policy topics.
  • Practical guides on how to find, afford, evaluate, and continue care.
  • Background on conditions, symptoms, and evidence-based treatments.
  • Resource roundups (crisis lines, federal agencies, professional bodies).

We do not publish:

  • Personalised medical, psychological, psychiatric, or treatment advice.
  • Content that promotes self-harm, dangerous home remedies, or unproven medical claims.
  • Content that targets, demeans, or discriminates against any individual or group.
  • Content that violates Google’s Publisher Policies, Restricted Content rules, or Inventory and Site Quality requirements.
  • Content created solely to manipulate search rankings or ad systems.

3. Sourcing Standards

We rely first on primary, authoritative sources, including:

  • Federal agencies: HHS, CMS, SAMHSA, CDC, NIMH, FDA, HRSA, VA.
  • State and local health departments and Medicaid agencies.
  • Peer-reviewed clinical literature indexed in PubMed.
  • Professional associations: APA (psychology and psychiatry), NAMI, ACOG, AAP, ASAM, AGPA, etc.
  • Legal and regulatory texts: ERISA, ACA, MHPAEA, ADA, FMLA, HIPAA, state parity laws.
  • Reputable patient-advocacy organisations.

Secondary sources (news organisations, academic institutions, large-scale surveys) are used to provide context. We avoid sourcing from anonymous forums, low-quality content farms, or marketing material disguised as journalism.

4. Research, Writing, and Review Workflow

  1. Brief. An editor scopes the article, identifies the audience question it answers, and lists required sources.
  2. Draft. The writer (human or human-supervised) produces a draft, citing sources inline.
  3. Fact check. Every factual claim, statistic, regulation, and dollar figure is verified against a primary source.
  4. Edit. An editor reviews for accuracy, clarity, structure, tone, and policy compliance.
  5. Sensitivity review. Articles touching on suicide, self-harm, eating disorders, trauma, substance use, or marginalised populations receive an additional review against established safe-messaging guidelines (e.g., reportingonsuicide.org).
  6. Legal/policy check. Articles that could implicate medical, legal, or advertising policy receive a final compliance pass.
  7. Publish. The article is published with publication date, last-updated date, and author/editor attribution.

5. Use of AI-Assisted Tools

We may use AI-assisted tools for research, brainstorming, drafting, copyediting, summarisation, accessibility checks, and metadata generation. We treat AI output as a starting point, not a finished product. Every published article is reviewed and edited by a human for accuracy, sourcing, tone, and policy compliance. We do not publish unedited AI output. We do not fabricate quotes, statistics, citations, or expert names.

6. Author Attribution

Articles display the name of the editor responsible for the published version. Where contributors have specific credentials or expertise, we note those credentials. We do not invent fictitious authors or fabricate biographies.

7. Updates and Corrections

We update articles when:

  • Laws, regulations, or coverage rules change.
  • New clinical guidelines or major studies materially change the consensus.
  • A reader, expert, or our own review identifies an inaccuracy.
  • Linked resources move or are deprecated.

Substantive updates are reflected in the article’s “Last Updated” date. Material corrections are noted at the bottom of the affected article with a brief description of what changed and when. Typo and formatting fixes do not require a correction note.

To request a correction or flag an issue, email support@kalmausam.in with the subject [Editorial] and a link to the article.

8. Editorial Independence

Daily Reading maintains a strict separation between advertising and editorial. Advertisers, sponsors, and affiliate partners do not:

  • Commission articles.
  • Review articles before publication.
  • Approve or veto coverage of any topic, brand, or competitor.
  • Influence which sources we cite or which conclusions we reach.

If an article references a brand or service that is also an advertiser or affiliate partner, that relationship is disclosed clearly. See our Advertising Disclosure.

9. Sponsored Content and Native Advertising

If we ever publish sponsored, paid, or native content, it will be clearly and conspicuously labelled as such (for example, “Sponsored,” “Paid Partnership,” or “Advertisement”) in a way that is unambiguous to a typical reader and consistent with the FTC’s Endorsement Guides and Google’s publisher policies. Sponsored content is held to the same factual-accuracy standards as our editorial content.

10. Conflicts of Interest

Editors and writers must disclose any personal, financial, or professional relationship that could create — or appear to create — a conflict with the subject of an article. Where such a conflict exists, the contributor either recuses from the assignment or the relationship is disclosed in the article.

11. Plagiarism and Originality

We do not plagiarise. Quotations are attributed. Paraphrased ideas are credited to the original source with a link wherever possible. We do not copy-paste material from other publishers, AI outputs, or any other source without proper attribution and rights.

12. Privacy of Sources and Subjects

Where articles include real-world examples, we either use composite or hypothetical scenarios or obtain informed consent for use of real details. We do not identify individuals as having a mental health condition without their explicit, informed permission.

13. Comments and Community

Where comments are enabled, they are moderated. We remove comments that violate our Terms of Service, including comments that are abusive, off-topic, contain personal medical advice to other readers, share private health information, promote self-harm, or are spammy. Persistent violators are blocked.

14. Diversity and Inclusion

Mental health affects everyone, but the system serves people unequally. We aim to reflect that reality through inclusive language, attention to underserved populations (including LGBTQ+ communities, communities of colour, rural communities, older adults, people with disabilities, and non-English speakers), and by amplifying perspectives that mainstream coverage often misses.

15. Compliance With Platform Policies

Our content is intended to comply with Google AdSense Program Policies, Google Publisher Policies, Google Publisher Restrictions, and the Inventory and Site Quality requirements applied to publishers using Google Ad Manager. Where Google’s policies prohibit or restrict ad serving on certain content (for example, certain shocking content, dangerous or derogatory content, or content related to the misuse of legal substances), we either avoid that content or, if we do publish it for legitimate educational reasons, we may opt out of monetisation on that page.

16. Feedback

Reader feedback drives our update cycle. To suggest an article, point out a gap, share an experience, or correct a mistake, email support@kalmausam.in with the subject [Editorial].