1. Accuracy: Publishing of any inaccurate, misleading or distorted information, including pictures must be avoided. If published, should also corrected immediately with due prominence, and made clarification where needed. A publication must report fairly and accurately the outcome of an action for defamation to which it has been a party, unless an agreed settlement states otherwise, or an agreed statement is published.
2. Journalistic Practices / Professionalism: BETAK TV adheres to the traditional best practices of journalism. The guiding principles are based on our responsibility to the reader to produce accurate, fair, and independent content.
3. Values and Biases: BETAK TV will never oblige any such person or institution on biasness. Impartiality will be the core value of our editorial policy.
4. Privacy: Everyone is entitled to respect for his or her private and family life, home, health and correspondence, including digital communications. Invasion to private life without one’s consent must be justified by authorities; strict action will be taken on complaint of intrusion to one’s private information. Taking photos of any individual without consent will not be acceptable.
5. Reporting ethically about grief or shock: In cases involving personal grief or shock, enquiries and approaches must be made with caution as the situation needs more comforting and sympathetic words to ease the pain of the sufferer and publication handled sensitively. When reporting about suicide, murder or any blast including causalities, care should be taken to avoid images or visuals including blood and body parts.
6. Victims of sexual assault: The press must not identify victims of sexual assault or publish material likely to contribute to such identification unless there is adequate justification and they are legally free to do so. In any press report of a case involving a sexual offence against a child - The child must not be identified.
7. Discrimination: Details of an individual's race, color, religion, sexual orientation, physical or mental illness or disability that might hurt individual’s integrity and self esteem, must be avoided unless genuinely relevant to the story.
8. Confidential sources: Sources of news are not always confidential but they are also respectable. They confidentiality must be retain at every cost. Therefore, it is moral obligation of the organization to protect confidential sources of information.