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

11. Responsibility for Content Provided by the General Public

11.1. User Generated Content/Eyewitness News

A Media Outlet shall ensure that the same principles of checking for accuracy, legal, and ethical compliance are applied to journalistic content sourced from the general public (UGC or Eyewitness News content) as with all content it publishes.

Does your Media Outlet publish any content that comes not from staff or freelancers but from external sources such as readers/viewers?

Yes

Does your Media Outlet have set structures to ensure the checking of externally sourced material undergoes the same principles as that created entirely by its own journalists?

Yes

11.2. Editorial Guidelines for UGC/Eyewitness News

There should be specific categories within the Media Outlet’s Editorial Guidelines for dealing with User Generated Content (UGC) or Eyewitness News and these should be publicly accessible. In relation to this type of content the guidelines shall indicate the verification process to be used, how the content should be published with any labelling required and include guidance on dealing with the content providers in a responsible manner.

Do your Editorial Guidelines also include provisions for externally-submitted material?

Yes

Are there Editorial Guidelines dealing with UGC/eyewitness news content?

Yes

Do they include details on the verification processes to be used for this content?

Yes

Do they include guidance on the appropriate labelling of such content?

Yes

Do they include guidance on dealing with the providers of such content in a responsible and ethical manner?

Yes

11.3. Opinion Guidelines

In relation to opinion or comment pieces the guidelines should set clear requirements of the ethical principles expected which may include but is not limited to prohibition of comment due to defamation, privacy, hate speech and harassment. The Media Outlet should make clear its policy on the moderation of such content, whether it is pre or post publication, and its policy on take-down, notice and appeal provisions.

Do your Editorial Guidelines also include provision for ensuring comment material is free from defamation?

Yes

If you want to publish additional information, please provide it here.

The principles, which state that no one may be condemned or humiliated because of their race, gender, social status or religious beliefs, and that no expressions that humiliate or slander individuals or organizations beyond the limits of criticism may be included, contain provisions to ensure that they are free from insult.

Do your Editorial Guidelines also include provision for ensuring comment material is free from invasions of privacy?

Yes

If you want to publish additional information, please provide it here.

The principle of privacy is applied with sensitivity. Especially for women and children, the principle of privacy is applied sensitively in crimes. Privacy is also tried to be protected with provisions stating that the private life of individuals cannot be the subject of publication unless it is necessary to inform the public.

Do your Editorial Guidelines also include provision for ensuring comment material is free from hate speech?

Yes

If you want to publish additional information, please provide it here.

'Adjectives such as "crook", "bomber", "thief", "mafia leader", "terrorist" are not used about the people who are the subject of the news. It is accepted that such expressions hinder rather than facilitate the understanding of the news, and in news reports, comments and analyses, care is taken not to use emphasis that implies that a person's behavior or crime is due to his/her race, nationality, religious or sectarian belief, gender, gender identity, sexual identity, sexual orientation, age, disability or any other characteristic, unless it is directly related to the event that is the subject of the news." The broadcasting principles include provisions to ensure that they do not contain hate speech.

Do your Editorial Guidelines also include provision for ensuring comment material is free from harassment?

Yes

If you want to publish additional information, please provide it here.

Expressions that insult or slander individuals and organizations beyond the limits of criticism may not be included. If there is more than one party involved in the news, care must be taken to obtain the views of all parties.

Is it clear to the public whether your Media Outlet’s moderation of such comment is pre- or post-publication?

Yes

Does this policy allow for the removal of offending material?

Yes
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