1.
A journalist has a duty to maintain the highest professional and ethical
standards.
2. A
journalist shall at all times defend the principle of the freedom of the press
and other media in relation to the collection of information and the expression
of comment and criticism. He/She shall strive to eliminate distortion, news
suppression and censorship.
3. A journalist shall strive to ensure
that the information he/She disseminates is fair and accurate, avoid the
expression of comment and conjecture as established fact and falsification by
distortion, selection or misrepresentation.
4. A
journalist shall rectify promptly and harmful inaccuracies, ensure that
correction and apologies receive due prominence and afford the right of reply
to persons criticised when the issue is of sufficient importance.
5. A
journalist shall obtain information, photographs and illustrations only by
straight forward means. The use of other means can be justified only by
over-riding considerations of the public interest. The journalist is entitled
to exercise a personal conscientious objection to the use of such means.
6.
Subject to justification by
over-riding considerations of the public interest, a journalist shall do
nothing which entails intrusion into private grief and distress
7. A
journalist shall protect confidential sources of information.
8. A
journalist shall not accept bribes or shall he/she allow other inducements to
influence the performance of his/her professional duties.
9. A
journalist shall not lend himself/herself to the distortion or suppression of
the truth because of advertising or other considerations.
10. A
journalist shall not originate material which encourages discrimination on
grounds of race, colour, creed, gender or sexual orientation.
11. A
journalist shall not take private advantage of information gained in the course
of his/her duties, before the information is public knowledge.
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