The Editorial Ethics and Guidelines of Inyenyeri News
The Inyenyeri News is guided by the following complex ethical issues which cover accuracy, diversity, taste, decency, offence, fairness, privacy, consent and engaging the audience, like any other independent and free media, these are the fundamentals of free journalism which are balance, impartiality, integrity and independence.
Balance and Impartiality:
Inyenyeri News has kept its recipe and brand of reporting; hence we have managed to maintain the trust of our audience.
Our Story must:
- Reflect all relevant sides in stories where possible
- Where it’s not practical for each story to be individually balanced, coverage is balanced over time.
- Represent opposing viewpoints fairly and in impartial and balanced way.
- Enable the audience to draw its own conclusions based on facts.
- Make a clear distinction between factual information and opinion.
- Our Editors must:
- Ensure a wide range of views, and include relevant voices so that all opinions are aired.
- Keep a professional distance from the topic in question; this means personal views are not allowed in our reporting.
- Where it’s not practically possible, they can offer an opportunity for a single view must be sure to explain why both sides of the augments are not able to be reported.
- Where individual item news fails to present the other side, we have the duty to indicate when the other perspective will be available.
Integrity and Independence:
Inyenyeri News has editorial integrity and Independence in order to fully serve our audience. All our audience needs to be confident that our editorial decisions are neither influenced by political or commercial pressure nor by any personal interests.
Accuracy:
Inyenyeri News unlike other media organizations has kept its professional standards by producing accurate and true information; this has not only kept our standards upright but has maintained our credibility intact. Accuracy is always our policy and priority, it is more important than speed. We prefer getting it right than getting it first.
Inyenyeri News has always and continually guarded against efforts by individuals or institutions to limit our editorial freedom from those who claim that our coverage is causing offence on grounds of any affiliations. Indeed, we will always mention anything if we feel it is essential in telling the story complete.
Noble Marara
Editor –in –Chief Inyenyeri News.
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