ABP Editorial Policy

ABP (Agence Bretagne Presse) is an independent online media outlet dedicated to news about historical Brittany and the Breton diaspora.

Independence and plurality

ABP does not relay miscellaneous incidents with no collective relevance, nor information unrelated to Brittany. We prioritize topics connected to Breton identity, culture, the economy, the environment, and social issues.

Sources and accountability

Information comes from signed press releases (associations, public bodies, political parties, companies) or from accredited correspondents. Anonymous submissions are not allowed. Authors are responsible for what they publish. Any defamation, incitement to hatred, or deliberate disinformation is prohibited. Everything must be signed; pen names are not allowed.

Editorial neutrality

ABP does not take sides in news reporting. Opinions are reserved for specific sections (columns, op-eds, reviews). Personal attacks and advertorials are rejected.

Clarity and accessibility

Articles must be sourced and understandable to an international French-speaking audience, with clear, explicit headlines. Texts with too many errors or that are too confusing may be refused.

Photos

Photos must be royalty-free or identified as Creative Commons. Blurry photos are not allowed.

Videos

Videos may be streamed using the embed code provided by YouTube.

Use of AI

Since late 2024, ABP has used artificial intelligence tools to assist with proofreading, translation, and formatting. AI does not choose topics, does not write articles on its own, and does not decide their hierarchy: it is used solely as a writing aid.

Authors remain fully responsible for their texts: fact-checking, choice of sources, angle, tone, and headlines. Any content produced with AI support must be reviewed, verified, and, if necessary, rewritten by a human before publication. ABP reserves the right to refuse texts that are clearly produced by AI without genuine editorial contribution.

The use of AI does not alter in any way the principles of independence, plurality, and respect for readers that underpin ABP’s editorial policy. The tools offered to contributors are intended to improve editorial quality, not to replace the diversity of voices.

Translations

ABP provides authors with translation assistance tools (notably into Breton), which produce an initial automated version that must always be reviewed and corrected. Breton-language texts published on ABP must not be raw AI translations, but versions validated by someone proficient in the language.

With the authors’ explicit consent, certain French/Breton text pairs may be included in a public bilingual corpus (Creative Commons license) intended to improve Breton language processing tools. In doing so, ABP aims to contribute, in its own way, to enriching the corpus available for this language, while respecting copyright and contributors’ editorial responsibility.

The Homepage: decided by readers

ABP’s homepage lead story is not chosen by an editor-in-chief, but determined automatically based on your reading. Each article is assigned a priority computed by a formula that takes into account the number of reads per hour (CPH) and the time elapsed since publication.

P = H / T

In practice, the faster an article is read, the higher it rises on the homepage. The homepage is rebuilt dynamically at each visit, and the maximum time an article can remain prominently featured is 7 days.

This figure may vary depending on the density of the news cycle.

👉 For an in-depth discussion of how this works and the role of “virtual editors-in-chief”, see: Philippe Argouarch, “Virtual editors-in-chief and other robots in the press”, Terminal journal (2019).