Media Outlet Latvijas Radio Date of first publication 16/09/2024 Date of Latest Change 01/11/2024

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

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

See Editorial Guidelines of Latvian PSM, Chapter 1, Section 1.4. "Professional Principles of Public Service Media", and Chapter 2, Section 2.2. "Handling Information Sources".

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

Yes

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

See Editorial Guidelines of Latvian PSM, Chapter 3 "Scope and Applicability of Editorial Guidelines".

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

Yes

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

See Editorial Guidelines of Latvian PSM, Chapter 1, Section 1.4. "Professional Principles of Public Service Media" and Chapter 2, Section 2.2. "Handling Information Sources".

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

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

Implementation of Editorial Guidelines of Latvian PSM and Code of Ethics of LR is discussed regularly in the Editorial Council of Latvian Radio (body that consists of directors and chief editors of all radio stations of LR and other divisions involved in the creating content) in response to the suggestions of LR staff or audience feedback. LR staff discuss the problems of the practical application of editorial and ethical standards with the public electronic mass media ombudsman half-yearly.

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

Yes

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

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

The general requirement to verify facts also implies the requirement to source and verify statistical data.

See Editorial Guidelines of Latvian PSM, Chapter 1, Section 1.4. "Professional Principles of Public Service Media", Chapter 2, Section 2.2. "Handling Information Sources" and Section 2.7. "Special Topics and Issues - Use of Scientific Content in Communication".

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

Yes

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

The general requirement to verify facts also implies the requirement to source and verify photos, video and audio content.

See Editorial Guidelines of Latvian PSM, Chapter 1, Section 1.4. "Professional Principles of Public Service Media" and Chapter 2, Section 2.2. "Handling Information Sources".

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

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

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

See Guidelines for War and Conflict Journalism of Latvian Public Media, Section "Relationship with information sources and their safety".

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

Yes

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

See Code of Ethics of LR, Article 3.5.

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

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

See Editorial Guidelines of Latvian PSM, Chapter 2, Section 2.7. "Special Topics and Issues", part "Coverage of Criminal Cases and Tragic Incidents" and part "Violence".

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

Yes

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

See Editorial Guidelines of Latvian PSM, Chapter 2, Section 2.1. "Human Dignity"and Section 2.7. "Special Topics and Issues", part "Children in Media Content and Content for Children".

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

Yes

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

See Editorial Guidelines of Latvian PSM, Chapter 2, Section 2.2. "Handling Information Sources".

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