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The document discusses the BBC's editorial guidelines on truth, impartiality, editorial integrity, serving the public interest, fairness, privacy, and avoiding harm and offense in media production. It considers how following or violating these guidelines could negatively or positively affect a product.

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Guidelines Grid

The document discusses the BBC's editorial guidelines on truth, impartiality, editorial integrity, serving the public interest, fairness, privacy, and avoiding harm and offense in media production. It considers how following or violating these guidelines could negatively or positively affect a product.

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BBC EDITORIAL GUIDELINES

BBC Ethical How it How it could How it could


Code imposes affect your affect your
constraints on product product
media negatively positively
production?
Truth and The truth and This could affect my This could affect
Accuracy accuracy on a product negatively by my product
media production making the topic more positively by not
means that the biased or even getting sued by not
information that incorrect. telling a lie in my
the product gets documentary.
has to be truthful
and factual.
Impartiality Impartiality and This could affect my This could affect
and Diversity diversity of opinion product negatively my product
in media productionbecause the product positively by
of Opinion is making sure at could focus on only covering all the
the production one side of a story topics evenly and
topics are not rather than all. being biased.
biased in anyway.
Editorial Editorial integrity This could affect my this could affect my
Integrity and and independence product negatively by product positively
is stating that the getting information or by
Independence editorial of the BBC influence from an Using no outside
is all independent outside source or influence.
and doesn’t come interest.
from another
source.
Serving the Serving the public This could affect This could affect
public interest interest means my product negatively my product by
giving the public by publishing stories in talking about how it
the news and my documentary that would affect the
stories that they might interest the audience, how
are affected by. audience but they every in my
don’t affect them. documentary it
does not affect the
audience they
would just be
interested in the
topic.
Fairness Fairness in media This could affect my This could affect
production means product negatively by my product
producing publishing information positively by
information that is to the audience that is publishing
fair and honest to not honest and that is information or
the audience. not from the correct stories that are
source. honest and fair to
the audience and
are from a trusted
source.
Privacy Privacy in media This could affect my This could affect
production means product negatively by my product
that the giving information to positively by not
information given other people that the showing
to a media must person would not want.information of a
not be given out to person unless
other parties unless stated by that
stated so. person.
Harm and Harm and offence This could affect my This could affect
Offence in media production product negatively by my positively by
is when the showing footage which not getting
production is taking would be harmful or involved in any
the welfare of their even offensive to the harm or even
audience for audience the footage which is
example the documentary is aimed offensive to the
children at. audience in
anyway, and
example of this
would be involving
children.
This in media This could affect my This could affect

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