Who publishes Sardinia Blog
Sardinia Blog is owned and published by Lion Development S.r.l., which is responsible for everything on the site. Registered office: Via Monte Napoleone 8, 20121 Milan. Office in Sardinia: Via Georgia 2, 07026 Olbia (SS). Olga Vasileva is the editor-in-chief. The site is published within the Rental12 ecosystem: Lion Development also owns Rental12, an owner-operator letting homes it owns in Olbia and Golfo Aranci. Our team page lists every contributor and how each one is connected to the company, including those who have no connection.
Ownership and funding
Sardinia Blog is paid for by its owner. It carries no advertising. It takes no commissions from the places it writes about, sells no sponsored rankings and publishes no paid content. Because our owner lets holiday homes on this coast, news about tourism, housing and short-term rentals can affect its business. Where that applies we say so in the item itself, and when we link to Rental12 we label its pages as company statements, not independent evidence.
What we cover
We publish news that changes something for people who visit Sardinia, live here or own a home here: flights and ferries, rules for beaches, parks and boats, tourism figures, housing and rental rules, weather alerts, events, food and wine. We prefer stories where we can add something others leave out: the primary document, last year's official figure for comparison, or the detail that contradicts the headline.
The news page has two streams.
- From the editors: longer items researched and written by our editorial team, usually from several sources and the primary documents behind them.
- Latest news: short items that summarise one report from Sardinian media or an official notice, with the original linked under the summary. A member of the editorial team reads every one before it is published.
How we source
- Every item names its main source and links to it directly under the summary.
- When a ruling, bulletin, budget, dataset or press release exists, we link to it rather than to a report about it.
- Quotes stay in the original language, with our translation marked as a translation.
- We say what we could not check. If we have not seen a document, or nobody replied to our questions, the item says so.
- Items with statistics end with "A note on the numbers": what the figure measures, the period, what it leaves out, and whether it is provisional.
- Each item ends with a "Sources" line listing every source we used, linked.
Opinion
News and opinion are kept apart. Opinion appears only in a section headed "Our view", at the end of an item, introduced as the opinion of Sardinia Blog's publisher, not news reporting. When the publisher has a stake in the subject, that section says so.
AI and translation
People choose the stories, read the sources and make the judgement. We use AI tools to help draft, structure and check text, and to translate. Every English item, in both streams, is read by an editor before it is published. The French, Italian, German and Dutch editions are translated automatically from the English and are not individually reviewed; if a translation reads wrongly, the English is the version a person signed off. Images: most are photographs; AI-generated illustrations are labelled as such.
Updates and corrections
When a story moves on, we update the item and mark it "Updated" with the date, and link a follow-up item back to the original. When we get something wrong, we correct it openly. See our corrections policy.
Contact
Corrections and tips: hello@sardinia.blog. Press: press@sardinia.blog.