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

Certified by

Certification Management & Development SAS (CMD Certification) – Colombia

Date of certification

06/08/2024

Contact details

Calle 95 # 48-40
110111 BOGOTA
Colombia

Media Outlet ELCRONISTA.CO Date of first publication 18/06/2024 Date of Latest Change 02/05/2024

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

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

Yes

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.

El contenido es sometido a procesos de verificación por parte del Editor y el Director, quienes velan por la exactitud de la información que se publica.

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.

En los consejos de redacción se evalúa los procesos de verificación de cada semana. Adicionalmente, el estado de quejas por parte de los usuarios, de posibles inexactitudes en la información. A partir de ese análisis se plantean políticas editoriales de manera permanente.

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

Yes

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

La junta directiva es el espacio donde el Director rinde cuentas del cumplimiento de las Directrices editoriales.

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.

En nuestras Directrices se establece que: la"Comprobación de hechos y estadísticas, identificando advertencias y limitaciones", es una de las tareas que debe emprender quienes producen contenido, en aras de la precisión. También se declara que "En el caso de informes que contengan estadísticas, las mismas no deben ser tomadas al pie de la letra. Además de atribuir la fuente, es una obligación verificarlas, explicar cifras con claridad, contextualizarlas, interpretarlas".

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.

Nuestras directrices señalan que "En el caso de contenido producido por usuarios, organizaciones estatales, no gubernamentales o privadas, tales como boletines de prensa, fotografías, audios o video, se deben tomar todas las medidas para su verificación, para garantizar la precisión del mismo y evitar que, respondiendo a intereses particulares, distorsionen la realidad". El contenido generado por terceros, es verificado y se garantiza el cumplimiento de los principios editoriales de El Cronista.

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?

N/A

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

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

Toda información producida por terceros será evaluada y publicada si y solo si, cumple con todos los principios universales de pluralismo, responsabilidad e independencia y con los valores establecidos en sus Directrices Editoriales por El Cronista.

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.

Las directrices editoriales son claras en el tratamiento ético de contenido violento o explícito. Nuestras Directrices Editoriales señalan: "La Constitución Política de Colombia garantiza el derecho a la libertad de expresión en su artículo 20, que dispone: Se garantiza a toda persona la libertad de expresar y difundir su pensamiento y opiniones, la de informar y recibir información veraz e imparcial, y la de fundar medios masivos de comunicación. Sin embargo, y aunque en El Cronista, entendemos que la libertad de expresión incluye el derecho de las diversas audiencias a recibir material, información o contenidos que puedan ser polémicos u ofensivos, cuanto mayor sea el riesgo de causar daño u ofensa, mayor será la precaución y será necesario demostrar el propósito editorial, el cual debe ser claro y cumplir con los principios de nuestro medio".

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

Yes

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

Yes

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