front 1 Apology | back 1 An expression of regret or sorrow by a publication for an error in judgement or lapse in journalistic ethics. |
front 2 Correction | back 2 Statements that "make right" the journalistic record. |
front 3 Editor's Note | back 3 An introductory paragraph(s) to introduce a story or series or to provide background on the topic or newsgathering process. |
front 4 Clarification | back 4 A post-publication explanation for something that was published that may raise questions about the story or the means through which the story was acquired. |
front 5 Retraction | back 5 A withdrawal of an entire story or other piece of content. |
front 6 Anonymous Source | back 6 Source whose name is changed or omitted in a story to protect the source from harm. |
front 7 Balance | back 7 In writing, refers to facts in stories being given proper emphasis, putting each fact into its proper relationship to every other fact. |
front 8 Confidentiality | back 8 Protecting the identity of a source because of real danger. |
front 9 Conflict of Interest | back 9 A reason to disqualify a reporter or photographer from covering an event in which he or she has substantial personal involvement. |
front 10 Ethics | back 10 Codes of conduct that guide journalists in the pursuit of truth and the news gathering process. |
front 11 Fabrication | back 11 Creating a person, a situation, a dialogue, statistics or any pivotal or incidental information and passing it off as real. |
front 12 Paraphrase | back 12 Rewording of information from a source. It does not require quotation marks but does require attribution. |
front 13 Plagiarism | back 13 Taking someone's words, art and other original work and passing it off as one's own. |
front 14 Source | back 14 The people the journalists interview for the story. |