Modeling Industry BriefEditorial policy
How the Modeling Industry Brief is made
- Beat
- Modeling-industry news that changes what a new model should do: agency scams and enforcement (the FTC, state attorneys general, court cases), model pay and labor rules (unions, New York's Fashion Workers Act and similar laws), casting and child-model rules, and major agency or platform changes.
- Sources
- A fact goes in only if it was read on the original page that day: the regulator's or attorney general's page, the court filing, the law, the union's or the company's own announcement. Search snippets and roundups are never sources. Every item links the page it came from.
- Dates
- Each item carries the day it happened, taken from the source page, not the day we read it. The issue date is the day we publish.
- Our view
- Facts and opinion are kept apart. Our view is labelled “Our view”, is one sentence, and adds no new facts.
- How AI is used
- AI agents research, read the source pages and draft each issue under these rules. Every claim is checked against its linked page before publishing, and a claim that cannot be checked is cut. Fewer than three checked items means no issue that day.
- No promises
- We never promise modeling work or success. Nothing here is legal advice: for a decision about a contract or a claim, read the linked rule and ask a lawyer or the agency that enforces it.
- Independence
- No paid coverage: no one pays to be covered. This site sells an optional paid plan for its fit check; the news never depends on it.
- Corrections
- Report a mistake to hello@westwardconsulting.ai. We fix it on the page, say what changed, and list it on the corrections page.