Editorial Reviewer

Tom Delacroix

22 years in travel and aviation · At Air Support Desk since 2019 · Lyon, France

Second reader on the whole library. He checks claims against sources and has the authority to hold a guide back from publication.

Biography

Background

Tom has spent most of his working life as a fact checker, first in daily news and later in specialist publishing. He joined Air Support Desk to build the review layer that sits between a finished draft and a published guide.

He does not write the guides he reviews, which is deliberate. His job is to work backwards from each claim to the source that supports it, and to remove anything that cannot survive that walk.

He also owns the corrections log, including the ones that are our own fault.

Areas of expertise

Editorial fact checking and verification
Source hierarchy and attribution
Corrections and post-publication review
Neutral and non-promotional wording

Topics covered

Verification method
Corrections handling
Source attribution
Editorial independence

Role

Editorial responsibilities

Responsibilities

Reviews every guide before publication as the second reader
Maintains the corrections log and publishes correction notes
Audits guides for airline-neutral language
Sets the review cadence by topic risk

Editorial principles

The reviewer works from the claim back to the source, never the other way round.
A correction is published with a date and a description, never made silently.
If publication would require a guess, the guide waits.

Research methods

Traces each factual sentence to a named primary source before sign-off
Rejects secondary publications as evidence, using them only as leads
Re-checks guides flagged by reader reports within the same week

Experience

Professional experience

2019 to present
Editorial Reviewer, Air Support Desk
Independent verification layer for the entire guide library.
2009 to 2019
Senior Fact Checker, specialist publisher
Verification lead across regulatory and technical titles.
2004 to 2009
Fact Checker, daily newspaper
Deadline verification for national news desks.

Recent work