The Team
AkronScore is deliberately small. Small means fast, accountable, and impossible to hide behind: every article on this site has a name on it, and the person behind that name answers for it. This page tells you who does what.
Ethan Caldwell, Founder and Editor
Ethan Caldwell is the founder and editor of AkronScore, an independent news site covering business, technology, science, sports, and entertainment. He spends his days tracking headlines and turning them into clear, quick reads that respect your time. His goal is simple: help readers cut through noise and know the score.
As editor, Ethan is responsible for:
- Story selection and editorial direction
- Fact-checking and sourcing standards on every article
- Corrections, from intake to published fix
- Enforcement of the Ethics Policy across the site
Contributors
As AkronScore grows, contributing writers may join for specific beats. Every contributor, without exception:
- Writes under a verified identity known to the editor
- Agrees in writing to our Editorial Policy, Fact-Checking Policy, and Ethics Policy
- Discloses conflicts of interest before taking an assignment
- Has their work edited and verified before publication
Guest posts that arrive with payment attached are advertising, not journalism, and are handled under the sponsored content rules on our Advertise page, labels and all.
How decisions get made
There is no committee and no corporate chain. The editor decides what gets covered, guided by one question: does this matter to readers? The policies published on this site are the constraint on that power. They are written down precisely so you can quote them back at us.
Standards we hold ourselves to
- Accuracy before speed, always
- Sources linked in every story
- Errors corrected in the open
- Opinion labeled as opinion
- No coverage for sale, at any price
Work with us
Interested in contributing on a business, tech, science, sports, or entertainment beat? Email support@akronscore.org with “FEEDBACK” in the subject, two or three writing samples, and the beat you want to cover. We respond to serious pitches within a week.
