Editorial standards

Who writes TEG Daily

TEG Daily publishes every day. It is edited by Daniel Burke, CEO of Tactical Energy Group. He selects every story, approves every brief before it publishes, and is accountable for every word.

No sponsor, advertiser, customer or partner sees a brief before publication.

Why we publish this, and how stories are chosen

The Indiana manufacturing space is dynamic. We serve the people who run plants here, so staying on top of the developments that affect manufacturing and making things in this state is central to our work.

We cover what we judge to be pertinent to manufacturing in Indiana: plants and supply chains, tariffs, workforce, power and rates. Stories are chosen on our impression of how much they matter to the manufacturing community and how useful they are to the people who run it. We take an interest in the things that are important to our customer base.

Our goal is a useful resource for the market, one that reflects our own effort to understand how this industry works, what it actually needs, and how we can best serve it. The brief is useful whether or not you ever do business with us. That is the point of it.

Every story is tagged to the counties it concerns. A county page lists only the briefs that name that county.

Sourcing and quotation

Every story lists its sources underneath it, so any reader can check what we wrote against what we read.

We quote, and a quotation is attributed to the person who said it and to where it was first reported or published. We do not present other people's prose as our own. Every brief is checked against its sources for copied wording, and a brief that does not pass that check is not published.

We link a source when it is a primary source, such as a filing, a release, or a government or university page, or a serious news outlet, and when the link goes to the story itself. Other sources are named by publication and headline without a link. Where a story comes from a release or a filing, we cite that rather than a re-report of it.

We do not use unnamed sources. If we cannot say where something came from, we do not print it.

What we do not do

We do not invent figures. Every number traces to a named source. We do not accept payment to include a story, to leave one out, or to frame one a particular way. We do not publish a company's press release as reporting.

What sponsorship is, and what it is not

An economic development corporation can sponsor its county. Doing so puts its name on the Manufacturers Energy Grant Program for that county's manufacturers, a free monthly review of a manufacturer's electric bills that we provide. The sponsor raises its hand for the program, advocates for it, and claims it as its own. No money changes hands in either direction.

A sponsor does not fund, review or endorse our coverage, and does not see a brief before it publishes. It has no right to ask for a change, a removal, or a different emphasis. Our coverage of a county does not depend on whether that county has a sponsor.

The Grant Program is open to every manufacturer in a sponsored county on the same terms, whether they ever appear in a brief and whether they ever buy anything from us.

Partner contributions

When a brief concerns a sponsor's county, we email the people that sponsor has listed and invite a reply.

A reply is published as sent, under the writer's own name and title, on the brief, on the story and on the county page. We cut nothing but the email signature. We do not edit a contributor's words, and we do not write words for them.

Replies are accepted only from the addresses on the sponsor's own list, so nobody can post in its name. A contributor can have a reply taken down by asking.

Corrections

If we get something wrong, tell us and we will fix it. We correct the story on the page and note on the page that we corrected it. We do not edit a published brief without saying on the page that we did.

Tell us at tac-nrg.com/ask.

Last reviewed October 8, 2026.