ABC Editorial Policies

Principles The ABC has a statutory duty to ensure that the gathering and presentation of news and information is accurate according to the recognised standards of objective journalism. The ABC requires that reasonable efforts must be made to ensure accuracy in all fact-based content. The ABC gauges those efforts by reference to: the type, subject and nature of the content; the type, subject and nature of the content; the likely audience expectations of the content; the likely audience expectations of the content; the likely impact of reliance by the audience on the accuracy of the content; and the likely impact of reliance by the audience on the accuracy of the content; and the circumstances in which the content was made and presented. The ABC should make reasonable efforts, appropriate in the context, to signal to audiences gradations in accuracy, for example by querying interviewees, qualifying bald assertions, supplementing the partly right and correcting the plainly wrong. Standards 2.1 Make reasonable efforts to ensure that material facts are accurate and presented in context.