Best Practices
Funding and Mission: Wat-not.com is funded through advertisements and sponsorships. Our mission is to provide accurate, engaging, and timely content across various topics, ensuring our audience stays informed and entertained.
Standards and Ethics: We adhere to the highest journalistic standards, ensuring our content is independent, accurate, and fair. We follow strict guidelines to maintain editorial integrity and uphold our commitment to ethical journalism.
Journalist Expertise
Credentials and Profiles: Each article includes the journalist’s name, profile, contact information, and areas of expertise. Detailed bios are available to showcase their credentials and previous work, ensuring transparency and trust in our reporting.
Type of Work
Content Labeling: All articles are clearly labeled as news, opinion, analysis, or sponsored content. Definitions for these labels are provided to ensure transparency about the nature of the content, helping readers understand the context and purpose of each piece.
References
Source Attribution: We provide clear citations and links to original sources. For in-depth stories, we offer access to documents and data behind our reporting, allowing readers to verify the information and understand the basis of our coverage.
Methods
Reporting Process: For investigative and in-depth stories, we explain why the topic was chosen and detail the methods used. This transparency helps readers understand the scope and rigor of our reporting, ensuring they can trust the information provided.
Locally Sourced
Community Engagement: Our reporters have deep knowledge of the communities they cover and frequently engage with local sources. On-the-scene reporting is emphasized to provide accurate and relevant coverage, ensuring our content resonates with our audience.
Diverse Voices
Inclusivity: We are committed to including diverse perspectives and voices from various social, ideological, and demographic backgrounds. Our content reflects a wide range of views to provide a comprehensive picture of the topics we cover.
Actionable Feedback
Reader Interaction: We actively invite feedback from our readers through comments, social media, and direct contact. This feedback helps shape our coverage, ensures accuracy, and holds us accountable. We also conduct polls and surveys to engage our audience in setting coverage priorities.
By integrating these Trust Indicators, Wat-not.com aims to build and maintain trust with our readers, ensuring transparency, accuracy, and reliability in all our content.