Last updated: October 2, 2026
NewsForce reports news for a global audience.
Our responsibility is to establish the facts, provide context, and help people understand what is happening.
These standards apply across our reporting, live coverage, original shows, interviews, documentaries, and social media.
We verify information before publishing and use original sources wherever possible.
We distinguish confirmed facts from allegations, estimates, and speculation.
When information cannot be independently verified, we say so.
Headlines, captions, clips, and thumbnails must accurately reflect the reporting.
Speed never removes our responsibility to get the story right.
Our editorial decisions are made by our editorial leadership.
Investors, advertisers, sponsors, governments, and political organizations do not direct our coverage.
We do not exchange favorable reporting for payment, access, or other benefits.
Relevant personal, professional, and financial conflicts must be disclosed and managed.
We apply the same standards of scrutiny regardless of politics, nationality, religion, wealth, or influence.
People and organizations facing significant allegations should have a reasonable opportunity to respond before publication.
We accurately represent their response and make clear when they decline to comment.
We weigh competing claims according to the evidence supporting them.
We scrutinize wrongdoing even when it involves people or causes we otherwise admire.
We clearly distinguish factual reporting from analysis, commentary, and opinion.
Analysis must be grounded in verified information.
Opinion contributors may express different perspectives, but factual claims remain subject to verification and correction.
A contributor’s views do not automatically represent NewsForce’s editorial position.
We credit original reporting and the work of journalists, photographers, filmmakers, and creators.
We do not plagiarize or present someone else’s work as our own.
Third-party material must be used with appropriate permission or another lawful basis.
We assess a source’s knowledge, credibility, and potential motives.
Anonymous sourcing requires an editorial justification, and we explain the reason for anonymity where doing so will not expose the source.
We honor agreed confidentiality and take reasonable steps to protect sources.
We treat people with respect, including those whose actions or views we challenge.
We avoid dehumanizing language and unnecessary intrusion into private lives.
Reporting on children, survivors, grieving families, and vulnerable people requires particular care.
We publish graphic imagery or sensitive personal information only when its public-interest value justifies the potential harm.
We do not stage distress or pressure people to relive traumatic experiences for content.
We investigate violence, coercion, and intimidation regardless of who is responsible or what cause they claim to serve.
We distinguish peaceful expression and lawful protest from threats and violent acts.
We provide necessary context when reporting extremist claims or propaganda and avoid reproducing material merely for shock or amplification.
We seek out stories about people solving problems, building, and strengthening their communities, alongside reporting on failures and wrongdoing.
Claims of progress deserve the same verification as allegations of misconduct.
We examine outcomes, listen to those affected, and avoid presenting publicity claims as independent reporting.
We do not fabricate quotes, sources, events, or evidence.
Editing must preserve the meaning and context of the original material.
We verify the origin, date, and location of user-generated content wherever possible.
Reconstructions, illustrative footage, and materially altered or AI-generated media must be clearly identified.
AI tools do not replace human verification or editorial responsibility.
During developing stories, we clearly state what we know, what we do not know, and where information comes from.
We do not present circulating claims as established facts.
Errors made during live coverage should be corrected promptly on air and in associated posts or recordings where practical.
Advertising, sponsorships, paid partnerships, and branded content must be clearly identified.
Commercial relationships do not exempt a subject from scrutiny or change our factual standards.
Audiences should be able to recognize when content has been paid for.
We correct material errors promptly and visibly.
Corrections should explain what was wrong and provide the accurate information.
We do not silently rewrite substantive errors to conceal them.
Editorial concerns and complaints are reviewed on their merits, regardless of who raises them.
