Sawt Ashabab - Code of Ethics

... as determined by the Sawt Ashabab Editorial Board, consisting of young people from six universities around Lebanon:

SAWT ASHABAB CODE OF ETHICS
• Honesty - no wrong info, at least 2 sources for info, no plagiarism
• Transparency
• Language - not too hard but not too simple
• Respect for candidates, politicians, readers
• Balance of opinions
• Pictures - high resolution, respect for copyrights
• Remain independent
• Don't go mock religious beliefs; no sectarian discrimination
• Everything you won't find in your average newspaper
• Consistency in spelling names, titles of persons
• Typo - spell check, proof-reading
• No defamation
• Reference page / sources on the web
• Enable comments on the web version; support reader feedback
• Balancing content (law-binding): if we write an article about the electoral campaign of x, need to write the same length about y
• Open source: collaborative work, everything is open for everyone to edit/work/write, etc....
• All of us are all the different ranks

(May 16, 2009 draft, in progress...)