Beyond the Headlines. Beneath the Surface. The Daily Perspective is Sada Journal’s analysis and opinion section. It looks at developments that matter to Morocco, whether they happen inside the country, across the region or around the world, and explains why they matter. It is not a news service. Straight reporting stays in the rest of Sada Journal.
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What you will find
- Analysis asks one question, sets out competing explanations and says which the evidence supports best.
- Opinion argues a position. It is labelled Opinion at the top, and it is kept apart from the facts it rests on.
- Every piece separates documented facts, interpretation, opinion and forecasts, and labels each passage.
- Pieces carry the date they were published. Corrections are added as dated notes and the original text is kept.
How a piece is made
- Scan Arabic, English, French and Spanish sources.
- Compare candidate topics, then pick one and record why the others were not chosen.
- State one analytical question and list the competing explanations.
- Start from primary records: UN documents, official statements, treaty and court texts, statistics offices.
- Label every claim: documented, official position, reported but not independently confirmed, contested, or our inference.
- Check vote tallies, instrument types, officials’ titles, contested terms and statistic definitions.
- Separate what an actor did, what it said and what we infer it wanted.
- Draft with facts, interpretation, opinion and forecasts in separate passages.
- Give each forecast a probability, a test for resolving it, a date and the reasons for the number.
- Run a quality check. If any item fails, the piece is held, and nothing is published to meet a schedule.
- Publish, then check the page on desktop and mobile.
- Keep a record of the article, its sources and its forecasts, and review forecast accuracy each month.
Forecasts
Forecast percentages are our own judgments, not measurements. Each one is recorded before publication with a clear test for whether it came true. We never rewrite a forecast afterwards. If we clarify one, the clarification is added as a dated note. Once outcomes are known we score them with the Brier method, which penalises confident wrong calls, and review the results each month.
Authorship
Daily Perspective pieces are published under the byline Adam Lotfi. See Sada Journal’s editorial policy and corrections policy.