Quote approval

How it is used

Distinguish editorial control over quotations from checking a technical fact or confirming a transcription.

Example sentences

1. The minister's aide requested quote approval before agreeing to the interview.

   The condition would give the source influence over the published wording.

2. We offered to check the technical terms but did not grant quote approval.

   Checking accuracy need not transfer publication decisions to the interviewee.

Common collocations

• request quote approval
• grant quote approval
• quote approval policy

Related terms

• quoteThe exact words that someone said or wrote, repeated in a story inside quotation marks; as a verb, to repeat someone's words and say who said them.
• on the recordSaid in a way that can be published and openly attributed to the person who said it, using their name and position.

More terms: Interviews and Quotes

• interview
• off the record
• on background
• vox pop
• interviewee
• transcript
• no comment
• quote mining
• pre-interview
• doorstepping
• death knock
• trauma-informed interviewing