Code of Ethics
Canons of Journalism
American Society of Newspaper Editors (1923)
The primary function of newspapers is to communicate to the human race what its members do, feel and think. Journalism, therefore, demands of its practitioners the widest range of intelligence, or knowledge, and of experience, as well as natural and trained powers of observation and reasoning. To its opportunities as a chronicle are indissolubly linked its obligations as teacher and interpreter.
(Fungsi utama media adalah untuk mengkomunikasikan kepada umat manusia apa yang dilakukan, dirasakan dan dipikirkan oleh umat manusia. Jurnalisme, mewajibkan para pelakunya memiliki kemampuan kecerdasan yang luas, pengetahuan, dan pengalaman, serta kekuatan observasi dan penalaran yang alami dan terlatih. Untuk menjadikan karya jurnalisme nya sebagai bagian dari kewajiban menyebarluaskan pembelajaran dan interpretasi dari sebuah topik yang diangkat)
To the end of finding some means of codifying sound practice and just aspirations of American journalism, these canons are set forth:
(Untuk memberikan arah pada proses kodifikasi praktik dan aspirasi jurnalisme yang sehat, Canon-canon/kode etik ini ditetapkan:)
I. RESPONSIBILITY (Bertanggung Jawab)
The right of a newspaper to attract and hold readers is restricted by nothing but considerations of public welfare. The use a newspaper makes of the share of public attention it gains serves to determine its sense of responsibility, which it shares with every member of its staff. A journalist who uses his power for any selfish or otherwise unworthy purpose is faithless to a high trust.
(Hak sebuah media untuk menarik perhatian pembaca dibatasi oleh pertimbangan kesejahteraan, ketenteraman, dan kebaikan publik. Penggunaan media untuk menarik perhatian publik, yang diperolehnya, dilatarbelakangi oleh rasa tanggung jawab, yang dibagikannya dimiliki oleh setiap anggota staf jurnalistik. Seorang jurnalis yang menggunakan kekuatannya untuk tujuan egoisme pribadi atau tujuan lain yang yang tidak bertanggung jawab adalah jurnalis yang tidak setia pada tata nilai trust yang tinggi yang penuh tanggung jawab)
II. FREEDOM OF THE PRESS (Kebebasan Press)
Freedom of the press is to be guarded as a vital right of mankind. It is the unquestionable right to discuss whatever is not explicitly forbidden by law, including the wisdom of any restrictive statute.
(Kebebasan pers harus dijaga sebagai hak vital umat manusia. Adalah hak
yang tidak perlu dipertanyakan lagi untuk membahas apa pun yang tidak
secara eksplisit dilarang oleh hukum, termasuk membahas berbagai kebijaksanaan pembatasan terhadap segala sesuatu (Rev. 6 Agustus 2021))
III. INDEPENDENCE:
Freedom from all obligations except that of fidelity to the public interest is vital.
1. Promotion of any private interest contrary to the general welfare, for whatever reason, is not compatible with honest journalism. So-called news communications from private sources should not be published without public notice of their source or else substantiation of their claims to value as news, both in form and substance.
2. Partisanship, in editorial comment which knowingly departs from the truth, does violence to the best spirit of American journalism; in the news columns it is subversive of a fundamental principle of the profession.
IV. SINCERITY, TRUTHFULNESS, ACCURACY:
Good faith with the reader is the foundation of all journalism worthy of the name.
1. By every consideration of good faith a newspaper is constrained to be truthful. It is not to be excused for lack of thoroughness or accuracy within its control, or failure to obtain command of these essential qualifies.
2. Headlines should be fully warranted by the contents of the articles which they surmount.
V. IMPARTIALITY:
Sound practice makes clear distinction between news reports and expressions of opinion. News reports should be free from opinion or bias of any kind.
1. This rule does not apply to so-called special articles unmistakably devoted to advocacy or characterized by a signature authorizing the writer's own conclusions and interpretation.
VI. FAIR PLAY (FAIR, TERBUKA DAN ADIL):
A newspaper should not publish unofficial charges affecting reputation or moral character without opportunity given to the accused to be heard ; right practice demands the giving of such opportunity in all cases of serious accusation outside judicial proceedings.
1. A newspaper should not involve private rights or feeling without sure warrant of public right as distinguished from public curiosity.
2. It is the privilege, as it is the duty, of a newspaper to make prompt and complete correction of its own serious mistakes of fact or opinion, whatever their origin.
VII. DECENCY (SOPAN SANTUN MEDIA) :
A newspaper cannot escape conviction of insincerity if while professing high moral purpose it supplies incentives to base conduct, such as are to be found in details of crime and vice, publication of which is not demonstrably for the general good- Lacking authority to enforce its canons the journalism here represented can but express the hope that deliberate pandering to vicious instincts will encounter effective public disapproval or yield to the influence of a preponderant professional condemnation.
(Sebuah media tidak bebas dari tuntutan hukuman conviction of insincerity, jika pada saat melaksanakan fungsinya menjunjung tinggi tujuan moral, akan tetapi pada saat yang bersamaan memberikan insentif dukungan untuk perilaku, seperti
- Memberikan dukungan pada rincian tindak dan perilaku kejahatan,
- Memberikan publikasi yang tidak terbukti untuk kebaikan umum-
- Lemahnya tanggung jawab dalam menegakkan etika dan kanon jurnalisme ini,
- Tidak dapat menunjukkan harapan dan dukungan publik karena (1) adanya pengaruh naluri jahat yang tersembunyi atau karena (2) pengaruh kecaman profesional yang lebih besar.)
(Rev. 6 Agustus 2021)
Diadopsi Oleh : Tabloid Informatika dan Informatika News Line, sejak penerbitan edisi awal Tabloid Informatika Dan Informatika News Line, 2000, 2016 (Versi Indonesia : 24 Januari 2021, Rev. 6 Agustus 2021)
