Marisol Thornton
Methodology & Standards Editor
Index methodology, BLS food-inflation framing, and editorial standards
Marisol Thornton oversees how Burgernomics documents its methodology and handles editorial standards across the index. The role sets how the cheeseburger basket is defined, how the BLS Food Away From Home and Limited Service Meals series frame the fast-food comparison, how data caveats are worded, and how corrections are processed. Explainers, guides, and trend write-ups are AI-assisted in research and drafting, then reviewed against the primary BLS Consumer Price Index sources before publication.
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How our content is produced
Content is produced by an AI-augmented editorial team: research and drafting are AI-assisted and reviewed by the named desk editor against primary public-data sources before publication.
See our Editorial Policy, Fact-Checking Policy, and Corrections Policy.