The editorial policy of News Waker is a set of guidelines that outlines the principles, values, and standards by which the platform operates. It is a roadmap for the platform’s journalists, editors, and contributors, ensuring their work aligns with its mission and objectives.
The editorial policy covers various aspects of the platform’s operations, including its approach to news coverage, fact-checking, sourcing, and ethics. By adhering to this policy, News Waker strives to provide its audience with accurate, fair, and impartial news and information.
Mission
At News Waker, our mission is to provide timely, accurate, and impartial news coverage to our audience. We are dedicated to upholding the highest standards of journalistic integrity and ethics and delivering news that informs, educates, and inspires our readers.
Objectives
- To provide timely and relevant news and updates to its audience: News Waker aims to keep its audience informed about the latest developments in various fields, such as politics, economy, society, culture, and technology.
- To promote transparency and accountability: News Waker strives to promote transparency and accountability in all operations. This includes ensuring its sources are reliable, fact-checking its information, and providing corrections when necessary.
- To foster a sense of community: News Waker seeks to promote community among its audience by providing a platform to engage in meaningful discussions, share their views and opinions, and connect.
- To uphold journalistic ethics: News Waker adheres to the highest standards of journalistic ethics, including impartiality, accuracy, fairness, and respect for the privacy and dignity of individuals.
- To innovate and adapt: News Waker recognizes the constantly evolving nature of the media industry and aims to innovate and adapt to meet its audience’s changing needs and preferences. This includes leveraging technology to enhance its content delivery and engagement with the audience.
Content
All content on News Waker is sourced without payment to content partners. News Waker takes no financial fees from our content partners for generating traffic. Our editorial objective is to inform readers of relevant news and information. We also provide a forum for the advancement of industry causes. We are objective, fair, and honest in our industry coverage. Our mission is to offer information and ideas that interest and inform readers.
Revenue Model
Our business model relies on revenue from advertisers and sponsors. These companies advertise products and services through banners, storefronts, product listings, and other marketing vehicles. They also sponsor specific portions or features of the sites.
Guideline for Content Submission
Our editorial mandate is to inform our audience of news, information, and resources relevant to our chosen industries. We strive to be unbiased in publishing only information that we believe to be relevant and important. Our foremost goal in reporting news is to be accurate, truthful, balanced and fair to all parties. We welcome and value any reader feedback and criticism.
News Waker encourages readers and industry executives to contribute columns, commentaries, and blogs. Guidelines for these columns focus on topics of interest to our readership. They are not overtly promotional tools for a company or product. They are not malicious, defamatory, or untruthful.
Links and Corrections Policy
We are not responsible for the content’s accuracy or other resources outside parties provide. Links are checked for accuracy at the time of publication. But we recognize that the Internet is a changing medium, and these links may become invalid or change. Once a news item is published, we attempt to contact individuals featured and quoted in the story immediately after it appears on the site. We will immediately correct the inaccuracy if those individuals point out an error.
We will accurately label various types of content. Content provided by an industry source will be marked to distinguish it from original and exclusive content produced and written by News Waker editors and freelancers. We strive to meet the highest standards for accuracy and completeness. Our policy is to immediately correct any factual error as soon as we become aware of it and verify it. Opinions expressed by bloggers are those of our valued contributors. We do not necessarily share or endorse those opinions.
Editorial Independence
The editor of News Waker maintains editorial independence in day-to-day editorial decisions. The editor also supports editorial independence for any of the view’s comments and opinions of others published in News Waker. Participation by relevant and interested government departments and agencies, regulatory and standards bodies, state-owned enterprises, institutes, industry associations, universities, consultants, readers, industry leaders, and experts will be proactively encouraged through technical articles and other editorial submissions.
Content Partnerships
News Waker doesn’t take payment for any referrals or lead generation. The editorial team works with many content partners to create a comprehensive database for India’s startup and technology ecosystem. These partnerships are based on the shared benefit to both parties by publishing content on the site and generating meaningful visibility and traffic for our content partners.
Content Submissions
News Waker regularly receives content submission requests from writers, bloggers, PR agencies, etc., wishing to submit content for publication. At the same time, the editorial team is always happy to be notified about potentially exciting content. We do not pay for content.
