At our core, we are a team of people from different ethnicities that have come together to fulfill one common goal: to bring people news of the untold stories in Doha. News that speaks for all people and things that are often shied away from. Our diversity is our forte and we aim to use it to find the news that is relevant to people from all kinds of backgrounds and places.
EDITORIAL GUIDELINES
The characteristics and ideology of NorthPressTern’s content and information are based on the editorial guidelines and policies below. These essential guidelines have been decided by all editors and members of this news organization, and thus, govern all content produced by the team.
These five policies discuss various issues of professional, administrative and ethical conducts, as well as the journalistic conduct of compiling and sourcing of all content presented by NorthPressTern.
The NorthPressTern team is mandated to meet regularly to discuss the effective achievement of these policies, as well as to update the guidelines for improvement when deemed necessary.
1) Accuracy of content serves as a primary goal in NorthPressTern’s content. In no circumstances should NorthPressTern’s team be influenced by any form of bribery and manipulation, and should therefore restrain from any influence that compromises NorthPressTern’s free flow of accurate factual information, free access to sources and open debate on any matter of importance to society
2) NorthPressTern operates in public interest, and must abide by Qatari laws. All content produced should be of significance to the audience and should thus remain impartial and unbiased from any coercive group of public opinion. Therefore, no significant strand of opinion will be present, along with diversity of opinion.
3) In no circumstance will NorthPressTern release news that consists of any sort of discrimination. On a similar note, NorthPressTern will not allow any room for personal malice and vendettas.
4) Protection of sources is a necessity; however, this does not allow NorthPressTern’s team to release false information stating that it’s an anonymous source. Furthermore, the use of any form of recording without consent is absolutely intolerable, along with release of information from a source without consent.
5) Plagiarism, going against intellectual property rights, and any sort of theft of another’s ideas, work and efforts is completely prohibited. Everything produced by NorthPressTern must be completely genuine.