The guiding principles of Team HNF

1. • Journalist must believe that the basic purpose of journalism is to provide people with the information they need to be empowered and Self-governing.

2. • Journalist must be obliged to the truth and loyal to the citizens and the Nation.

3. • Journalist must maintain independence from any kind of bias – be it individual or circumstantial.

4. • Journalist must serve as an independent monitor of society, administration and power.

5. • Journalist must not impose his/ her own opinion on the News and People.

6. • Journalist must respect accuracy.

7. • Journalist must exercise his/ her personal conscience while reporting and presenting the news.

HNF Culture of Journalism and Content Production

1. Accuracy

The information should confirm the reality only and not in any way be interpreted/ misleading or unfaithful to the truth. Information must be thoroughly crosschecked and presented in the news with a disciplined use of Visuals, Language and technology.

2. Integrity

The information must be truthful, and not distorted anyway to justify a conclusion based upon any kind of affiliation or personal bias.

3. Fairness

News must contain relevant facts, information and points-of-view that are significant. Persons, institutions, issues and events that are part of the news must be dealt with fairly and the Reporter/ News Producer must never cross the boundaries of internationally recognised principles of Media Ethics.

HNF EDITORIAL POLICY STATEMENT

We strongly emphasize upon "Pure information", "Originality" and "Authenticity" in all our News and Feature content.

We strongly condemn all/ any kind of unethical practice in the name of Journalism like use of unauthorised Content, violation of Intellectual Property Right Act and all/any kind of immoral and unlawful act while producing/ presenting News and Features.

We promote investigative Journalism but discourage all and any kind of sensational approach in reporting and presentation of News.

We always appreciate the act of finding interesting news and human interest stories but strongly discourage the act of manufacturing news on the basis of certain/ all evidences that are interpreted/ generated/ imposing in nature.

(NB: This Ethics and Principles Guideline is a sole property of HotnHit Newsfeatures, Bhubaneswar, Orissa, India)

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