Honesty
\nFairness
\nIndependence
\nRespect for the rights of others<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Journalists will educate themselves about ethics and apply the following standards:<\/p>\n
1.\u00a0 Report and interpret honestly, striving for accuracy, fairness and disclosure of all essential facts.\u00a0 Do not suppress relevant available facts, or give distorting emphasis.\u00a0 Do your utmost\u00a0 to give a fair opportunity for reply.<\/p>\n
2.\u00a0 Do not place unnecessary emphasis on personal characteristics, including race, ethnicity, nationality, gender, age, sexual orientation, family relationships, religious belief, or physical or intellectual disability.<\/p>\n
3.\u00a0 Aim to attribute information to its source.\u00a0 Where a source seeks anonymity, do not agree without first considering the source’s motives and any alternative attributable source.\u00a0 Where confidences are accepted,\u00a0 respect them in all circumstances.<\/p>\n
4.\u00a0 Do not allow personal interest, or any belief, commitment, payment, gift or benefit, to undermine your accuracy, fairness or independence.<\/p>\n
5.\u00a0 Disclose conflicts of interest that affect, or could be seen to affect, the accuracy, fairness or independence of your journalism.\u00a0 Do not improperly use a journalistic position for personal gain.<\/p>\n
6.\u00a0 Do not allow advertising or other commercial considerations to undermine accuracy, fairness or independence.<\/p>\n
7.\u00a0 Do your utmost to ensure disclosure of any direct or indirect payment made for interviews, pictures, information or stories.<\/p>\n
8.\u00a0 Use fair, responsible and honest means to obtain material.\u00a0 Identify yourself and your employer before obtaining any interview for publication or broadcast.\u00a0 Never exploit a person’s vulnerability or ignorance of media practice.<\/p>\n
9.\u00a0 Present pictures and sound which are true and accurate.\u00a0 Any manipulation likely to mislead should be disclosed.<\/p>\n
10.\u00a0 Do not plagiarise.<\/p>\n
11.\u00a0 Respect private grief and personal privacy.\u00a0 Journalists have the right to resist compulsion to intrude.<\/p>\n
12.\u00a0 Do your utmost to achieve fair correction of errors.<\/p>\n
Guidance Clause<\/strong><\/p>\nBasic values often need interpretation and sometimes come into conflict. Ethical journalism requires conscientious decision-making in context. Only substantial advancement of the public interest or risk of substantial harm to people allows any standard to be overridden.<\/em><\/p>\n\u00a0MEAA Code of Ethics<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Respect for truth and the public’s right to information are fundamental principles of journalism. Journalists describe society to itself. They convey information, ideas and opinions, a privileged role. They search, disclose, record, question, entertain, suggest and remember. They inform citizens and animate democracy. They give a practical form to freedom of expression. Many journalists work […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P3t0mw-2Hc","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.nofibs.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10366"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.nofibs.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.nofibs.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.nofibs.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.nofibs.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.nofibs.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10366\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.nofibs.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Respect for truth and the public’s right to information are fundamental principles of journalism. Journalists describe society to itself. They convey information, ideas and opinions, a privileged role. They search, disclose, record, question, entertain, suggest and remember. They inform citizens and animate democracy. They give a practical form to freedom of expression. Many journalists work in private enterprise, but all have these public responsibilities. They scrutinise power, but also exercise it, and should be accountable. Accountability engenders trust. Without trust, journalists do not fulfil their public responsibilities. Alliance members engaged in journalism commit themselves to<\/p>\n