Media Outlet Hazara Express News Date of first publication 28/03/2025 Date of Latest Change 29/03/2025
10. Accuracy
10.1. Processes for Ensuring Accuracy
The Media Outlet shall have internal rules with a systematic editorial process to make sure that the content is accurate and the Editorial Guidelines are adhered to. This may include the verification process for the content and the role of editorial oversight.
Do you have internal rules and a systematic editorial process to ensure the accuracy of your content?
YesIf you want to publish additional information, please provide it here.
Yes, Hazara Express News has internal rules and a systematic editorial process to ensure the accuracy of its content. This process includes:
✔️ Fact-Checking Procedures – All information is verified through credible sources before publication.
✔️ Multiple Editorial Reviews – Content goes through an editorial review process to check for errors or bias.
✔️ Source Verification – Journalists are required to cross-check sources to ensure reliability.
✔️ Corrections & Clarifications – If inaccuracies are found, they are promptly corrected with transparency.
✔️ Editorial Oversight – The Editor-in-Chief (Sher Afzal) supervises the editorial process to uphold accuracy standards.
✔️ Fact-Checking Procedures – All information is verified through credible sources before publication.
✔️ Multiple Editorial Reviews – Content goes through an editorial review process to check for errors or bias.
✔️ Source Verification – Journalists are required to cross-check sources to ensure reliability.
✔️ Corrections & Clarifications – If inaccuracies are found, they are promptly corrected with transparency.
✔️ Editorial Oversight – The Editor-in-Chief (Sher Afzal) supervises the editorial process to uphold accuracy standards.
Do you have internal rules and a systematic editorial process to ensure that the Editorial Guidelines are adhered to?
YesIf you want to publish additional information, please provide it here.
Yes, Hazara Express News has internal rules and a systematic editorial process to ensure strict adherence to its Editorial Guidelines. These include:
✔️ Editorial Oversight – The Editor-in-Chief (Sher Afzal) ensures compliance with the guidelines.
✔️ Clear Editorial Policies – All journalists and contributors must follow predefined ethical and professional standards.
✔️ Content Review Process – Articles go through multiple editorial checks before publication.
✔️ Accountability Mechanisms – Any violations of the guidelines are addressed through internal review and corrective actions.
✔️ Training & Compliance – Staff receive ongoing guidance on ethical journalism and best practices.
✔️ Editorial Oversight – The Editor-in-Chief (Sher Afzal) ensures compliance with the guidelines.
✔️ Clear Editorial Policies – All journalists and contributors must follow predefined ethical and professional standards.
✔️ Content Review Process – Articles go through multiple editorial checks before publication.
✔️ Accountability Mechanisms – Any violations of the guidelines are addressed through internal review and corrective actions.
✔️ Training & Compliance – Staff receive ongoing guidance on ethical journalism and best practices.
Do you have a verification process for content and the role of editorial oversight?
YesIf you want to publish additional information, please provide it here.
Yes, Hazara Express News has a verification process for content and a structured editorial oversight system.
✔️ Fact-Checking – All information is verified through multiple credible sources before publication.
✔️ Editorial Review – Articles go through a multi-level review by editors to ensure accuracy, fairness, and adherence to guidelines.
✔️ Source Validation – Only verified sources are used, and any anonymous sources require additional scrutiny.
✔️ Corrections Policy – If errors are found post-publication, corrections are made transparently.
✔️ Editorial Oversight – The Editor-in-Chief (Sher Afzal) supervises content to ensure compliance with ethical journalism standards.
✔️ Fact-Checking – All information is verified through multiple credible sources before publication.
✔️ Editorial Review – Articles go through a multi-level review by editors to ensure accuracy, fairness, and adherence to guidelines.
✔️ Source Validation – Only verified sources are used, and any anonymous sources require additional scrutiny.
✔️ Corrections Policy – If errors are found post-publication, corrections are made transparently.
✔️ Editorial Oversight – The Editor-in-Chief (Sher Afzal) supervises content to ensure compliance with ethical journalism standards.
10.2. Process Review
There shall be a mechanism for the periodic review of the editorial processes to ensure that they are in compliance with the Editorial Guidelines and that the accountability processes are effective and being used to support them.
Do you have a mechanism for periodic review of the effectiveness of the implementation of your Editorial Guidelines in your editorial processes?
YesIf you want to publish additional information, please provide it here.
Yes, Hazara Express News has a mechanism for periodic review to assess the effectiveness of its Editorial Guidelines in editorial processes. This includes:
✔️ Regular Internal Audits – The editorial team conducts periodic reviews to ensure compliance with guidelines.
✔️ Editorial Meetings – Discussions are held to evaluate challenges, improve processes, and reinforce ethical journalism.
✔️ Feedback Mechanism – Input from readers, journalists, and editors is considered to refine editorial practices.
✔️ Corrections & Adjustments – Policies are updated as needed to maintain journalistic integrity and accuracy.
✔️ Oversight by Editor-in-Chief – Sher Afzal, the Editor-in-Chief, ensures continuous improvement and adherence to standards.
✔️ Regular Internal Audits – The editorial team conducts periodic reviews to ensure compliance with guidelines.
✔️ Editorial Meetings – Discussions are held to evaluate challenges, improve processes, and reinforce ethical journalism.
✔️ Feedback Mechanism – Input from readers, journalists, and editors is considered to refine editorial practices.
✔️ Corrections & Adjustments – Policies are updated as needed to maintain journalistic integrity and accuracy.
✔️ Oversight by Editor-in-Chief – Sher Afzal, the Editor-in-Chief, ensures continuous improvement and adherence to standards.
Is your accountability mechanism (internal or external) subject to periodic review?
YesIf you want to publish additional information, please provide it here.
Yes, Hazara Express News has an accountability mechanism that undergoes periodic review to ensure transparency and adherence to journalistic ethics. This includes:
✔️ Internal Reviews – Regular assessments by editorial leadership to evaluate compliance with ethical standards.
✔️ Editorial Meetings – Discussions on journalistic practices, corrections, and improvements.
✔️ Public Feedback Mechanism – Readers can report concerns or inaccuracies, which are reviewed and addressed.
✔️ Corrections Policy – Mistakes are acknowledged and rectified promptly.
✔️ Oversight by Editor-in-Chief – Sher Afzal ensures the accountability framework remains effective.
✔️ Internal Reviews – Regular assessments by editorial leadership to evaluate compliance with ethical standards.
✔️ Editorial Meetings – Discussions on journalistic practices, corrections, and improvements.
✔️ Public Feedback Mechanism – Readers can report concerns or inaccuracies, which are reviewed and addressed.
✔️ Corrections Policy – Mistakes are acknowledged and rectified promptly.
✔️ Oversight by Editor-in-Chief – Sher Afzal ensures the accountability framework remains effective.
10.3. Statistics and External Content
Statistics and external photographs/video/audio content should be sourced and verified.
Do your Editorial Guidelines require that statistics should be sourced and verified?
YesIf you want to publish additional information, please provide it here.
Yes, the Editorial Guidelines of Hazara Express News require that all statistics be sourced and verified before publication. This includes:
✔️ Credible Sources – Statistics must come from reputable organizations, government agencies, research institutions, or verified reports.
✔️ Fact-Checking Process – Data is cross-checked with multiple sources to ensure accuracy.
✔️ Context & Clarity – Statistics must be presented in the correct context to avoid misinterpretation.
✔️ Attribution – The original source of the statistics must always be cited.
✔️ Correction Policy – If errors in statistical data are found, they are promptly corrected and updated.
✔️ Credible Sources – Statistics must come from reputable organizations, government agencies, research institutions, or verified reports.
✔️ Fact-Checking Process – Data is cross-checked with multiple sources to ensure accuracy.
✔️ Context & Clarity – Statistics must be presented in the correct context to avoid misinterpretation.
✔️ Attribution – The original source of the statistics must always be cited.
✔️ Correction Policy – If errors in statistical data are found, they are promptly corrected and updated.
Do your Editorial Guidelines require that external photographs/video/audio content should be sourced and verified?
YesIf you want to publish additional information, please provide it here.
Yes, the Editorial Guidelines of Hazara Express News require that all external photographs, video, and audio content be sourced and verified before publication. This includes:
✔️ Source Verification – All media content must come from credible sources (official agencies, licensed providers, or verified contributors).
✔️ Authenticity Checks – Images, videos, and audio are reviewed for manipulation, misinformation, or misleading context.
✔️ Attribution – Proper credit is given to the original source to maintain transparency.
✔️ Fact-Checking Tools – Reverse image searches, metadata analysis, and AI tools are used to verify authenticity.
✔️ Correction Policy – Any inaccuracies in media content are promptly corrected or removed.
✔️ Source Verification – All media content must come from credible sources (official agencies, licensed providers, or verified contributors).
✔️ Authenticity Checks – Images, videos, and audio are reviewed for manipulation, misinformation, or misleading context.
✔️ Attribution – Proper credit is given to the original source to maintain transparency.
✔️ Fact-Checking Tools – Reverse image searches, metadata analysis, and AI tools are used to verify authenticity.
✔️ Correction Policy – Any inaccuracies in media content are promptly corrected or removed.
10.4. Identification of Journalists, Agencies
Principle and secondary authors should be identified, or if not, then recorded via publishing mechanisms, so that this information can be accessed if there is a query. This includes any news agency material subscribed to by the Media Outlet. Any details of individuals should be subject to the legal requirements of data protection and security considerations.
Are the Individual Journalists (including external sources) identified, for example through a byline, or recorded in publishing mechanism so that this information can be accessed?
YesIf you want to publish additional information, please provide it here.
Yes, Hazara Express News ensures that individual journalists, including external contributors, are identified and recorded in the publishing process. This includes:
✔️ Bylines on Articles – Journalists’ names are included in published content to ensure transparency.
✔️ Contributor Records – External sources and freelance writers are documented in the editorial system.
✔️ Editorial Accountability – The Editor-in-Chief (Sher Afzal) oversees the publication process and ensures proper attribution.
✔️ Public Accessibility – Readers can see the names of authors or contributors where applicable.
✔️ Corrections & Clarifications – If needed, responsible journalists are identified for follow-ups or clarifications.
✔️ Bylines on Articles – Journalists’ names are included in published content to ensure transparency.
✔️ Contributor Records – External sources and freelance writers are documented in the editorial system.
✔️ Editorial Accountability – The Editor-in-Chief (Sher Afzal) oversees the publication process and ensures proper attribution.
✔️ Public Accessibility – Readers can see the names of authors or contributors where applicable.
✔️ Corrections & Clarifications – If needed, responsible journalists are identified for follow-ups or clarifications.
Is all News Agency material used by the Media Outlet recorded and tracked?
N/A10.5. Location Reporting
In news reporting, it should be clear to any reader or audience where a report is being written from, and if it includes location reporting. Where location reporting is constrained due to the mechanism or conditions of the facilitation this should be identified, e.g. an embed with an official army or independent travel with local militias. This may also include occasions where the reporting has been facilitated by a commercial, NGO or governmental organisation and labelling is necessary for transparency.
Is location reporting identified in your content?
YesDo your Editorial Guidelines ensure that any constraint on location reporting be explained in the report or in the context of its publication?
YesIf you want to publish additional information, please provide it here.
Yes, Hazara Express News ensures that any constraints on location reporting are explained in the report or its context when necessary. This includes:
✔️ Security & Safety Concerns – If a location is not disclosed due to journalist safety, this is mentioned in the report.
✔️ Legal Restrictions – If laws or regulations prevent full disclosure of a location, the reason is stated.
✔️ Source Protection – When anonymity is required to protect sources, the report clarifies why details are limited.
✔️ Conflict Zones & Sensitive Areas – Reports from restricted or war-affected regions include disclaimers about access limitations.
✔️ Verification & Transparency – If location details cannot be independently verified, this is clearly
✔️ Security & Safety Concerns – If a location is not disclosed due to journalist safety, this is mentioned in the report.
✔️ Legal Restrictions – If laws or regulations prevent full disclosure of a location, the reason is stated.
✔️ Source Protection – When anonymity is required to protect sources, the report clarifies why details are limited.
✔️ Conflict Zones & Sensitive Areas – Reports from restricted or war-affected regions include disclaimers about access limitations.
✔️ Verification & Transparency – If location details cannot be independently verified, this is clearly
Do your Editorial Guidelines require transparency where a location report has been facilitated by an external body?
YesIf you want to publish additional information, please provide it here.
Yes, Hazara Express News ensures transparency whenever a location report has been facilitated by an external body. The Editorial Guidelines require:
✔️ Clear Disclosure – If a report is facilitated by a government body, organization, or third party, this is explicitly mentioned.
✔️ Independence Statement – Journalists must clarify if the facilitation impacted their reporting.
✔️ Access & Restrictions – If access was restricted, guided, or controlled, this information is disclosed.
✔️ Source Verification – Any provided information is fact-checked for accuracy and bias.
✔️ Conflict of Interest Avoidance – Reports must maintain independence and not serve external agendas.
✔️ Clear Disclosure – If a report is facilitated by a government body, organization, or third party, this is explicitly mentioned.
✔️ Independence Statement – Journalists must clarify if the facilitation impacted their reporting.
✔️ Access & Restrictions – If access was restricted, guided, or controlled, this information is disclosed.
✔️ Source Verification – Any provided information is fact-checked for accuracy and bias.
✔️ Conflict of Interest Avoidance – Reports must maintain independence and not serve external agendas.
10.6. Automatically Generated Content
News content generated, wholly or partly, automatically by means of algorithmic processes (such as but not limited to text generating systems, bots or artificial intelligence) shall be clearly indicated.
Do you publish any content that is automatically generated?
No10.7. Algorithmic Dissemination and Curation
A Media Outlet shall indicate its policy on the use of algorithms for news content dissemination or curation and its adherence to best practice requirements from regulatory or advisory bodies.
Do you use any algorithms for the dissemination or curation of content?
No10.8. Treatment of Explicit Content
Editorial processes shall ensure the ethically appropriate treatment of violent and explicit content, of content which features children or other vulnerable people, and of live content.
Do your Editorial Guidelines ensure the ethically appropriate treatment of violent and explicit content?
YesIf you want to publish additional information, please provide it here.
Yes, Hazara Express News ensures the ethically appropriate treatment of violent and explicit content through its Editorial Guidelines, which include:
✔️ Sensitivity & Context – Violent or graphic content is only published when necessary for public interest and always with context.
✔️ Minimizing Harm – Efforts are made to blur, crop, or provide warnings for distressing visuals.
✔️ Ethical Considerations – Content is evaluated for potential harm to victims, families, and audiences before publication.
✔️ Editorial Oversight – The Editor-in-Chief (Sher Afzal) and the newsroom team review sensitive material before release.
✔️ Clear Warnings – If explicit content is unavoidable, clear viewer discretion warnings are provided.
✔️ Sensitivity & Context – Violent or graphic content is only published when necessary for public interest and always with context.
✔️ Minimizing Harm – Efforts are made to blur, crop, or provide warnings for distressing visuals.
✔️ Ethical Considerations – Content is evaluated for potential harm to victims, families, and audiences before publication.
✔️ Editorial Oversight – The Editor-in-Chief (Sher Afzal) and the newsroom team review sensitive material before release.
✔️ Clear Warnings – If explicit content is unavoidable, clear viewer discretion warnings are provided.
Do your Editorial Guidelines ensure the ethically appropriate treatment of content which features children or other vulnerable people?
YesIf you want to publish additional information, please provide it here.
Yes, Hazara Express News ensures the ethically appropriate treatment of content featuring children or other vulnerable people through its Editorial Guidelines, which include:
✔️ Informed Consent – Content involving children or vulnerable individuals is only published with guardian or legal representative consent, where applicable.
✔️ Privacy Protection – Identities are protected, and personal details are withheld unless there is a compelling public interest.
✔️ Minimizing Harm – Reports are carefully worded to prevent exploitation, stigmatization, or distress to those involved.
✔️ Editorial Oversight – The Editor-in-Chief (Sher Afzal) and the newsroom team review and approve such content before publication.
✔️ Context & Sensitivity – Coverage ensures fair representation, avoiding sensationalism or emotional distress.
✔️ Informed Consent – Content involving children or vulnerable individuals is only published with guardian or legal representative consent, where applicable.
✔️ Privacy Protection – Identities are protected, and personal details are withheld unless there is a compelling public interest.
✔️ Minimizing Harm – Reports are carefully worded to prevent exploitation, stigmatization, or distress to those involved.
✔️ Editorial Oversight – The Editor-in-Chief (Sher Afzal) and the newsroom team review and approve such content before publication.
✔️ Context & Sensitivity – Coverage ensures fair representation, avoiding sensationalism or emotional distress.
Do your Editorial Guidelines ensure the ethically appropriate handling of live content?
YesIf you want to publish additional information, please provide it here.
Yes, Hazara Express News ensures the ethically appropriate handling of live content through its Editorial Guidelines, which include:
✔️ Pre-Broadcast Review – Whenever possible, live content is planned and assessed to avoid ethical breaches.
✔️ Minimizing Harm – Sensitive events (e.g., violence, accidents, or distressing situations) are handled with caution to avoid harm to viewers and affected individuals.
✔️ Editorial Oversight – The Editor-in-Chief (Sher Afzal) and senior editors monitor live broadcasts to ensure compliance with ethical standards.
✔️ Emergency Intervention – If inappropriate or harmful content is aired, moderators or editors can intervene or issue disclaimers.
✔️ Transparency & Accuracy – Efforts are made to fact-check in real-time and clarify any developing misinformation.
✔️ Respect for Privacy – Live coverage respects personal privacy and legal restrictions, especially in sensitive cases.
✔️ Pre-Broadcast Review – Whenever possible, live content is planned and assessed to avoid ethical breaches.
✔️ Minimizing Harm – Sensitive events (e.g., violence, accidents, or distressing situations) are handled with caution to avoid harm to viewers and affected individuals.
✔️ Editorial Oversight – The Editor-in-Chief (Sher Afzal) and senior editors monitor live broadcasts to ensure compliance with ethical standards.
✔️ Emergency Intervention – If inappropriate or harmful content is aired, moderators or editors can intervene or issue disclaimers.
✔️ Transparency & Accuracy – Efforts are made to fact-check in real-time and clarify any developing misinformation.
✔️ Respect for Privacy – Live coverage respects personal privacy and legal restrictions, especially in sensitive cases.