Modul Mata Kuliah Journalisme Online - Ayo Menulis FISIP UAJY

Explain our decision making in terms of our process and our relationships, both institutional and
personal.
Maintain open channels of communication with our audience.
Protocols
We will never knowingly publish or air falsehoods.
The quality of publishing decisions -- from how to report a story, to what elements to include, to issues
of linking -- can be significantly improved by responding to a set of questions. These questions include:
What purpose will be served?
What harm might be caused?
How much of this content is verified?
How reliable and comprehensive are the sources?
Are we giving proper context?
Decisions about how much editing should be applied to various content should be guided by such
considerations as:
The nature and context of the content
The author(s) of the content (staff, users, etc.)
The editors' level of trust in the author(s)
When we discover that we've distributed an error, we will consider the following:
What has been the likely impact of the error and how can we most effectively address that?
How appropriate is it to retain a record of the error for readers who return to the story or
bloggers who have linked to it in its original form?
What publishing conventions might work best (for example: strikethroughs, appended
corrections, corrective posts by readers, an editor's note)?
We will seek to display as much transparency as possible in regard to our processes and our
relationships, both institutional and personal. Before publishing, we will consider a series of questions
regarding transparency:
What might the consumer want to know?
What publishing conventions might address these questions (for example, online personal pages
for journalists revealing as much about themselves as they are willing to share, links to
previously published or aired work, etc.)?
How much detail might be provided about the sources pursued in the course of reporting and
dimensions of the story still unknown?
How might the audience be enlisted to fill in some of the story's gaps?
How might such devices as transparency buttons be employed as links to stories behind the
story that explain controversial or difficult decisions and provide details that readers might find
relevant.