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

Certified by

Deloitte

Date of certification

16/02/2023

Contact details

477 Collins Street
3000 Melbourne
Australia

Media Outlet The Lithuanian National Radio and Television (LRT) Legal Entity Lithuanian National Radio and Television (LRT) Date of first publication 14/12/2022 Date of Latest Change 27/01/2023

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 the LRT Editorial Policy, Ch. III “EDITORIAL RESPONSIBILITY PROCESS".

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 the LRT Editorial Policy, Ch. III "EDITORIAL RESPONSIBILITY PROCESS".

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 the LRT Editorial Policy, Ch. III "EDITORIAL RESPONSIBILITY PROCESS", in particular, III.1.4. “Ensuring the truth and accuracy of information. Exceptions to editorial responsibility” and III.3. "Changing, removing, refuting published information".

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.

The LRT Ethics Commission and responsible editors shall periodically, but at least once a quarter, submit a report in free form on the problems of the practical application of the Policy and/or proposals for amending or supplementing the provisions of the Policy. These reports shall be submitted to the LRT Director General for the purpose of assessing the effectiveness of the Policy. After consideration of the information provided in the LRT management meeting, the LRT Director General may initiate amendments to the Policy, instruct additional training to be developed and organized, appropriate organisational measures to be introduced, etc.
See the LRT Editorial Policy, Ch. XI "FINAL PROVISIONS".

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

Yes

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

See the LRT Editorial Policy, Ch. XI "FINAL PROVISIONS".

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 and sources of initial information also implies the requirement to source and verify statistical data.

See the LRT Editorial Policy, Ch. III.1.4. "Ensuring the truth and accuracy of information. Exceptions to editorial responsibility".

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 and sources of initial information also implies the requirement to source and verify photos/videos/audio content.

See the LRT Editorial Policy, Ch. III.1.4. "Ensuring the truth and accuracy of information. Exceptions to editorial responsibility".

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.

See LRT Editorial Policy, Ch. III. 2.1. "Disclosure of the producers of the work and the location of the report".

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 the LRT Editorial Policy, Ch. III.2.1 "Disclosure of the producers of the work and the location of the report".

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 Code of Ethics of Journalists of LRT , Ch. VIII (40) "TRANSPARENCY", provides that journalists must identify in their information the institution or organisation that paid for the travel expenses. This provision does not apply when a journalist is sent on a business trip by the LRT.

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.

The treatment of violent and explicit content is regulated by the Law on the Provision of Information to the Public, the Law on the Protection of Minors Against the Detrimental Effect of Public Information, and other legislation. The principles of the treatment are also reflected in the LRT Editorial Policy, Ch. V "DISPLAY AND TREATMENT OF 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.

The ethical treatment of content which features children or other vulnerable people is regulated by law (The Law on the Protection of Minors against the Detrimental Effect of Public Information, The Law on the Provisions of Information to the Public, etc.) and the LRT’s internal regulation and guidelines.
See also in:
- The LRT Editorial Policy, Ch. III.1.7. "Respect for privacy",
Ch. V "DISPLAY AND TREATMENT OF SENSITIVE CONTENT", in particular, Ch. V.3. "Specific features of the publication of information on minors".
- The Code of Ethics of Journalists of LRT, Ch. V "PROTECTION OF MINORS".

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 The LRT Editorial Policy, Ch. III.2.3. "Features of live broadcast".

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