Editor
Marta Vandenberg
Editorial standards, the city atlas, what gets published and what doesn't.
Marta runs the desk. She sets what counts as a verified fact here — a fee is only a fee if the company prints it — and she owns the city atlas, which means she is the one who decides a market is worth a page.
What Marta is responsible for
Editorial standards, the city atlas, what gets published and what doesn't. Corrections on those pages come to this desk first. Our standards are set out on how we test and the editorial policy page.
How Marta works
Marta reads the company's own site first and the marketing second, then writes down only what could be shown to a stranger. Anything that survives that gets a date attached to it. The city atlas is built the same way: a market gets a page when there is enough verifiable material to fill one honestly, and not before.
The rule Marta will not bend
If we cannot show you where a number came from, it does not go on the page.
That is not a stylistic preference. A review site that estimates a fee creates a number that did not exist, and the next person to read it treats it as a benchmark — including, sometimes, the company itself. We would rather publish a gap than manufacture a figure, and every page on this site is written that way.
Getting a correction in front of Marta
Email the desk with the page and the specific line. If a company has published something since we last read its site, send the URL rather than the figure — we cite published pages, not correspondence, so a link gets the row updated and an email with a number in it does not. Corrections are made and dated on the page. There is more on the process on the contact page.