Palawan Daily News editorial team, which comprises its editors, editorial consultants, staff, employees, journalists, contributors, columnists abide with the Filipino Journalist’s Code of Ethics as a fundamental guiding principle in the pursuit of fair, responsible and ethical news gathering and production.
Filipino Journalist’s Code of Ethics
- I shall scrupulously report and interpret the news, taking care to not suppress essential facts nor to distort the truth by improper omission or emphasis. I recognize the duty to air the other side and the duty to correct substantive errors promptly.
- I shall not violate confidential information on material given me in the exercise of my calling.
- I shall resort only to fair and honest methods in my effort to obtain news, photographs and/or documents, and shall properly identify myself as a representative of the press when obtaining any personal interview intended for publication.
- I shall refrain from writing reports which will adversely affect a private reputation unless the public interest justifies it. At the same time, I shall fight vigorously for access to information.
- I shall not let personal motives or interest influence me in the performance of my duties, nor shall I accept or offer any present, gift or other consideration of a nature which may cast doubt on my professional integrity.
- I shall not commit any act of plagiarism.
- I shall not in any manner ridicule, cast aspersions on or degrade any person by reason of sex, creed, religious belief, political conviction, cultural or ethnic origin.
- I shall presume persons accused of crime to be innocent until proven otherwise.
- I shall not take unfair advantage of a fellow journalist.
- I shall accept only such tasks as are compatible with the integrity and the dignity of my profession, invoking the “conscience clause” when duties imposed on me conflict with the voice of my conscience.
- I shall conduct myself in public or while performing my duties as a journalist in such manner as to maintain the dignity of my profession. When in doubt, decency should be my watchword.
Approved by the Philippines Press Institute, the National Union of Journalists in the Philippines, and the National Press Club in 1988.
