The Hearing Wire is an aggregation desk, not an authoring one. Everything below describes what that means in practice — what we will and won’t do, how to read what we publish, and how to push back when we get it wrong.
The Wire is a feed of dispatches drawn from publications, journals, professional bodies, and regulators we have reviewed and added to the desk. For each one we persist the original headline, image, publication date, and a structured tag set describing topic, signal, and content type. We surface a short, single-line read under each headline — it is a summary of the original, never a substitute, and the link goes to the original publication.
We don’t author articles. We don’t paraphrase, rewrite, or re-photograph dispatches to make them feel like ours. The byline you see is the byline of the publication that filed the story, and the canonical URL — when one is supplied — points back to that publication.
When the desk itself files a piece — for example, an explainer that aggregates several dispatches into one read — it is labelled clearly with The Wire as publisher, and that label is reflected in the article’s structured data.
Manufacturer announcements — launches, financial filings, partnership press, earnings — are run on the Wire because they are part of the field. They are not presented alongside independent reporting without a flag.
Every dispatch is tagged with a signal. Items filed by a manufacturer or on a manufacturer’s behalf carry the Industry signal. Independent research carries Research. Practice-side guidance — clinical, regulatory, reimbursement — carries Practice. These signals are filterable in the live feed and visible on every card.
What gets onto the desk:
- Peer-reviewed audiology and hearing-science journals.
- Trade publications that have a clear masthead and corrections process.
- Regulatory bodies and government health agencies.
- Professional organisations representing audiologists and hearing-health workers.
- Manufacturer newsrooms and investor-relations feeds, flagged accordingly.
What we won’t add:
- Anonymous or unattributed sites.
- Content farms and AI-spun republishers.
- Affiliate-marketing pages dressed as editorial.
- Sources that decline to honour a takedown of clearly fabricated material.
We use AI — specifically Anthropic’s Claude — to do the desk work that would otherwise be impossible at this volume: short single-line reads under headlines, topic and entity tagging, signal scoring, and image alt text. Every model output passes through a deterministic post-processing layer that bounds claims, refuses to invent quotes, and keeps language close to the source.
We do notuse AI to rewrite or reword the original publications. The link you click goes to the original byline, on the original site, in the publication’s own words.
The rubric the model uses to score and tag — what counts as Practice vs Industry vs Research, what counts as a manufacturer announcement, what an entity tag means — is maintained and reviewed by the human editor.
If a dispatch on The Wire is mistagged, misattributed, or includes an error in the one-line read we surfaced, write to the editor. We aim to acknowledge corrections within one business day and resolve them within three.
If you are a publisher and you would like a story removed from the desk, write to the editor with the canonical URL. We will remove it within one business day. If you are a publisher and you do not want your feed indexed at all, the same email gets you delisted.
The Wire does not provide medical advice. Nothing on this site — headline, summary, or signal — should be read as a recommendation to start, stop, or change treatment. If you have a hearing concern, please see a licensed clinician.
For the broader context — who runs the desk, why we built it this way — see About The Hearing Wire.