Media Outlet And Gazetecilik ve Yayıncılık San. ve Tic.A.Ş. Date of first publication 07/10/2024 Date of Latest Change 07/10/2024

10. Accuracy

10.1. Processes for Ensuring Accuracy

The Media Outlet shall have internal rules with a systematic editorial process to make sure that the content is accurate and the Editorial Guidelines are adhered to. This may include the verification process for the content and the role of editorial oversight.

Do you have internal rules and a systematic editorial process to ensure the accuracy of your content?

Yes

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News that is within the scope of journalistic possibilities to be investigated cannot be published without investigating or verifying its accuracy, even if it appears in another publication or news source. In order to verify the news, Gazete Duvar works with a network of correspondents in 60 cities in Turkey, correspondents abroad, data from journalism networks, evaluated by an Editor-in-Chief and an editor specially assigned and trained in this field.

Do you have internal rules and a systematic editorial process to ensure that the Editorial Guidelines are adhered to?

Yes

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The Gazete Duvar Editorial Board evaluates the criticisms, suggestions and requests for changes regarding the publication by other executive boards and the advisory board in periodic face-to-face meetings with the editor-in-chief.

Do you have a verification process for content and the role of editorial oversight?

Yes

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The editorial board is charged with direct verification and oversight.

10.2. Process Review

There shall be a mechanism for the periodic review of the editorial processes to ensure that they are in compliance with the Editorial Guidelines and that the accountability processes are effective and being used to support them.

Do you have a mechanism for periodic review of the effectiveness of the implementation of your Editorial Guidelines in your editorial processes?

Yes

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Gazete Duvar's Advisory Board evaluates the criticisms, suggestions and requests for changes made by other executive boards and the advisory board in face-to-face meetings with the editor-in-chief at regular intervals.
The Advisory Board, together with a secretariat to be determined by the Gazete Duvar Editorial Board, holds its regular bimonthly meetings, in which other experts may also participate in line with demands and needs.

Is your accountability mechanism (internal or external) subject to periodic review?

Yes

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A report is published annually to check the principles of the strategic plan, subject to periodic review through project-based independent audits and annual company audits.

10.3. Statistics and External Content

Statistics and external photographs/video/audio content should be sourced and verified.

Do your Editorial Guidelines require that statistics should be sourced and verified?

Yes

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We indicate the source.

Do your Editorial Guidelines require that external photographs/video/audio content should be sourced and verified?

Yes

10.4. Identification of Journalists, Agencies

Principle and secondary authors should be identified, or if not, then recorded via publishing mechanisms, so that this information can be accessed if there is a query. This includes any news agency material subscribed to by the Media Outlet. Any details of individuals should be subject to the legal requirements of data protection and security considerations.

Are the Individual Journalists (including external sources) identified, for example through a byline, or recorded in publishing mechanism so that this information can be accessed?

Yes

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All news and articles by individual journalists published on Gazete Duvar are published with signature lines. The professional information of the journalists is also included in the articles.

Is all News Agency material used by the Media Outlet recorded and tracked?

Yes

10.5. Location Reporting

In news reporting, it should be clear to any reader or audience where a report is being written from, and if it includes location reporting. Where location reporting is constrained due to the mechanism or conditions of the facilitation this should be identified, e.g. an embed with an official army or independent travel with local militias. This may also include occasions where the reporting has been facilitated by a commercial, NGO or governmental organisation and labelling is necessary for transparency.

Is location reporting identified in your content?

Yes

Do your Editorial Guidelines ensure that any constraint on location reporting be explained in the report or in the context of its publication?

Yes

Do your Editorial Guidelines require transparency where a location report has been facilitated by an external body?

Yes

10.6. Automatically Generated Content

News content generated, wholly or partly, automatically by means of algorithmic processes (such as but not limited to text generating systems, bots or artificial intelligence) shall be clearly indicated.

Do you publish any content that is automatically generated?

10.7. Algorithmic Dissemination and Curation

A Media Outlet shall indicate its policy on the use of algorithms for news content dissemination or curation and its adherence to best practice requirements from regulatory or advisory bodies.

Do you use any algorithms for the dissemination or curation of content?

10.8. Treatment of Explicit Content

Editorial processes shall ensure the ethically appropriate treatment of violent and explicit content, of content which features children or other vulnerable people, and of live content.

Do your Editorial Guidelines ensure the ethically appropriate treatment of violent and explicit content?

Yes

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Gazete Duvar has a Statement Against Discrimination, Gazete Duvar Statement on Gender Equality, Gazete Duvar Statement Against Hate Speech and Crimes.

Do your Editorial Guidelines ensure the ethically appropriate treatment of content which features children or other vulnerable people?

Yes

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In crimes related to children, the public names and photographs of persons under the age of 18 who are suspects, defendants, convicts, witnesses, victims or deceased may not be published; such children may not be interviewed without the consent of their parents or other persons legally responsible for the child; and in crimes related to sexual inviolability, physical or sexual violence against women and children, the public names and photographs of the victims may not be published; publications that would reveal their identity shall be avoided.Care is taken not to broadcast in a way that will reproduce the violence in question and create anxiety in the society.' The General Editorial Principles specify how content should be handled ethically.

Do your Editorial Guidelines ensure the ethically appropriate handling of live content?

Yes

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Every journalist who starts working at Gazete Duvar is informed about the editorial
principles during their orientation period. In the period they start working, supportive work on this issue is carried out by former employees of the organization, and important discussions on this point are held in service meetings held with the participation of the Editorial Board.

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