The Wall Street Journal has posted a short video explaining how its standards and ethics editing team works.
“I get a lot of complicated, investigative work across my desk,” said Elena Cherney, head of standards and ethics, in the video. “As standards editors, we need to know how credible the information is.”
Standards and ethics editors also ask reporters who they interviewed and documents they reviewed. They also want to make sure that reporters didn’t overlook sources.
The Journal prefers on-the-record sources because it knows that readers are skeptical of unnamed sources.
When the Journal decides not to name a source, it tries to provide as much information as it can about how the source knows what they know. Were they in the meeting?
“Before publishing, we seek comment from all those involved in the story,” said Cherney. This is called the “No Surprises” policy at The Journal.
To watch, go here.
