The Media Outlet has been independently certified according to the JTI Programme and CWA 17493:2019.

Certified by

Deloitte

Date of certification

02/12/2024

Contact details

477 Collins Street
3000 Melbourne
Australia

Media Outlet Latvian Television Date of first publication 13/11/2024 Date of Latest Change 27/09/2024

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.

LTV's editorial guidelines set accuracy of content as one of the professional principles of its work. The organisational structure of content production ensures that no item of content is published that has not been subject to editorial control.

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.

LTV's editorial guidelines provide a framework for assessing possible breaches of the guidelines and what action should be taken to remedy the problem. They are available to both LTV staff and the public.
LTV has a Correction of Errors Regulation, which regulates in more detail the media's actions in identifying and correcting errors. https://ltv.lsm.lv/satura-veidosana/satura-kludu-labosanas-pamatprincipi-latvijas-televizija-2024
LTV has an Editorial Board, which monitors compliance with editorial guidelines and, where necessary, assesses and decides whether they have been complied with and not violated in specific cases.

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.

LTV's editorial guidelines set accuracy of content as one of the professional principles of its work. It also requires that content is verified and editorially assessed.

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.

Compliance with the Editorial Guidelines in controversial and borderline cases is evaluated by the LTV Editorial Board. Its recommendations may lead to changes in LTV's editorial processes to ensure adherence to the Guidelines, as well as modifications to the Guidelines themselves to enhance and clarify editorial principles and practices.

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

Yes

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

The Editorial Board may propose clarification or improvement of the Guidelines or processes by considering specific examples where the Guidelines have been violated or where the guidelines do not sufficiently specify an editorial action.

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 principles of verification and accuracy of information set out in the Editorial Guidelines also apply to statistical data.

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 principle of verification and accuracy of information set out in the Editorial Guidelines also applies to visual material obtained from external 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

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

Editorial Guidelines hold the media accountable for its content, and part of this accountability is the disclosure and traceability of authors in the editorial process.

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.

The openness and accountability set forth the Guidelines also requires that content consumers are informed of the aspects that have had a significant influence on the production of content.

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.

The openness and accountability set forth in the Guidelines also includes informing consumers of content about the aspects, limitations and context of the information provided that have significantly influenced the production of the content.

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?

Yes

Is it in the Editorial Guidelines of your Media Outlet to clearly indicate content generated, wholly or partly, by means of AI or algorithmic processes?

Yes

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

In the EBU project A European Perspective, we indicate that automated translations have been used according to EBU principles https://www.ebu.ch/eurovision-news/european-perspective.
The LTV Guidelines for the Use of Artificial Intelligence set out the basic principles for the use of AI, with the expectation that it is done in an open way that also identifies content created in this way to users of the news. https://ltv.lsm.lv/satura-veidosana/maksliga-intelekta-riku-lietosana-latvijas-televizija-2024

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?

Yes

Do you clearly indicate your policy on your use of algorithms for the dissemination and curation of news content?

Yes

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

LTV has adopted Guidelines for the Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI), which set out the key principles for the use of AI, including clear identification of AI-generated content. https://ltv.lsm.lv/satura-veidosana/maksliga-intelekta-riku-lietosana-latvijas-televizija-2024

Does the Media Outlet adhere to best practice requirements from a regulatory or advisory body?

Yes

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

Currently there is limited best practice rquirements, but we do adhere to best suggestions from EBU and local regulatory or advisory bodies

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.

Editorial guidelines section 2.7. deals with violent, explicit and sensitive content.

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.

Editorial guidelines section 2.7. deals with violent, explicit and sensitive content, including content for or about children and other vulnerable people.

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

Yes

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

Live content are handled same way as any other content, additionaly there is specific action frameworks to use when broadcasting live.

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