EDITORIAL POLICY OF KHARNOU14
Kharnou14’s editorial contents and all other items published on its platforms should be for education, entertainment, and information in line with journalism practices, professionalism, and media ethics. The principal objective of the policy is to provide a platform to educate and sensitize the public about Kharnou 14 Hijriyatin and Haqiqatul Munawera, as well as fight injustices, human rights violations, and discrimination against marginalized groups, individuals, or communities. The consideration of fairness, relevance, and impartiality shall be the driving force behind the website and its related platforms. The site reserves the right to educate, entertain, and inform the public on any issue deemed to be newsworthy. The policy accepts advertisements, donations, and the promotion of commercial branding of products or services for the effective operationalization of programs. However, this acceptance must not compromise the principles of fairness, media ethics, and journalism. It will also hold the government and private sector accountable to the public in order to get positive feedback from their services.
PRIORITY OF THE WEBSITE
The website prioritizes education, independence, and raising the voice of marginalized individuals, communities, or genders, including children’s rights. It has zero tolerance for human rights violations, religious discrimination, and all other forms of discrimination based on hate, malice, or demographic positions. Huge attention is paid to the lives and livelihoods of the rural people, who mainly depend on agriculture for their wellbeing. The policy also seeks to partner with organizations or agencies that promote and empower farmers’ endeavors in agriculture, agrobusiness, horticulture, poltry farming, and all other agriculture related matters. Also, the site seeks to reshare newsworthy articles or items already published by another source or media outlet while acknowledging that source.
INTERPRETATION:
The publisher is the owner and monitor of the website, whereas the editor could be either the publisher or any other person assigned by the publisher to do editorial work.
Kharnou 14 Hijriyatin refers to the 14th century of the Muslims’ calendar.
THE POLICY COVERS THE FOLLOWING AREAS:
1: Publisher’s or editor’s role
- The editor(s) should be aware of current issues trending on social media and in and around their environment.
- The editor should not be shy about criticism but handle it with professionalism and maturity.
- The editor should reserve the right to make comments on any issue of public concern, either in support of or against a particular agenda, especially on issues affecting underprivileged, disadvantaged, or marginalized groups, and shall do so in good faith in line with his or her knowledge, conscience, or perspective on the subject matter.
2: CONFIDENTIALITY:
In a situation where complete confidentiality is assumed to be the only reason or condition for getting the story, that condition needs to be respected in line with journalistic values. Kharnou14 is morally obligated to protect sources who do not want their identity to be revealed, provided that the source categorically justified from the onset the need to be anonymous.
3) SOURCE OF FUNDS:
With Kharnou14, it is prohibited to pay or induce anyone for the sake of getting information. All information must be obtained at the person’s free will, be consentful, and published in good faith. Our source of funding is expected to be the public, donations, advertisements, and our own hard earned news items that other media outlets or organizations show interest in buying.
4: PRIVACY
Editors, publishers, or journalists working for Kharnou14 should not intrude into an individual’s private life, business entities, or religious sensitivity.
5: PROTECTION OF CHILDREN:
Children should not be identified in cases such as sexual offenses, whether as victims, witnesses, or defendants, except in justifiable and unavoidable circumstances. The policy also covers women’s empowerment and condemns all forms of violence against women and girls.
6: ADVERTISEMENT:
This site accepts advertisements aimed at promoting commercial brand products, services, or achievements in order to increase public awareness or recognition of the products or services. Interested persons or organizations who wish to advertise with Kharnou14 could use the contact details on the website.
7: PLAGIARISM:
Kharnou14 does not promote plagiarism; instead, it encourages its own news stories while giving credit or acknowledging articles or information obtained from other media outlets or sources.
8: COMMENTS, CONJECTURE, AND FACTS
Journalists should vividly differentiate in their reports the difference between their own comments, conjectures, and facts.
9: PUBLISHED ERRORS & APOLOGIES:
The primary goal of Kharnou14 is to educate, entertain, and inform the public in line with journalism practices and media ethics. In doing so, any information that is published is found to be erroneous or misleading, and where such claims are verified and confirmed to be erroneous, the publisher or editor is obligated to rectify, apologize, or remove the parts or whole bearing such error. The focus of this site is to make accurate publications in line with good journalistic practices. This is the editorial policy of Kharnou 14, written in Banjul on Friday, March 15, 2024.
