Our Editorial Principles
Introduction and Guidelines Overview
Action Packed is an organization that produces impartial, high-quality content in the public interest with the sole intent of educating, informing, and entertaining our subscribers. Action Packed operates independently from any government, creating unbiased content with creative freedom and journalistic integrity, free from external funding or political agendas. We periodically review our editorial standards to ensure we maintain our integrity. Publishing these standards here fulfills our obligation as a media house, providing complete transparency to our subscribers. We aim to be a reliable and impartial source of information, demonstrating our credibility and adherence to widely recognized ethical and editorial standards.
Mission and Publishing Criteria
The mission of Action Packed is to provide reliable, accurate, and timely information that meets general journalistic standards and ethics. Our editorial philosophy focuses on finding and telling stories that significantly impact our readers’ lives. We aim to publish authentic and truthful news while preserving the integrity of our coverage and providing unique details relevant to the topic. Our coverage includes trending news, international events, culture, entertainment, economy, technology, and sports. Our editorial team ensures all published news is impartial and based on available information, truthfulness, and informative content. As a media outlet, we promise to always offer highly credible information.
Tone and Style
At Action Packed, we are committed to excellent journalism and an objective coverage approach that provides the most reliable and accurate information to our audience. We strive to demonstrate a high quality of reporting based on accuracy, ethics, and journalistic responsibility. The tone and style reflected in Action Packed’s informational content must always be objective, verified, and professional. Our news stories are based on verified facts and data, free from any form of bias. Our editorial team applies common sense and responsible journalism to meet the high expectations of our audience.
Minimizing Conflicts of Interest and Bias
At Action Packed, we uphold the highest levels of reliability and fairness. We pride ourselves on maintaining quality and ethical journalism standards, adhering to principles of accuracy, objectivity, and honesty. Our editors rigorously ensure that everything we publish is truthful and fair. This involves thoroughly verifying facts, gathering information from credible sources, giving subjects the opportunity to respond to allegations, and clarifying and correcting information as necessary. We strive to minimize conflicts of interest and external influences to guarantee that our content is a trustworthy source of truth. We aim for informative leadership that inspires confidence in our readers, adhering strictly to principles of independent news judgment.
Attribution and Credit
At Action Packed, we believe that credibility is key to being a reliable and trustworthy information source. We are committed to reporting with accuracy, integrity, and honesty. Credit and attribution must always be given in accordance with contracts and licenses. The names of authors, contributors, sources, and others associated with the content must always be acknowledged, with specific sources cited in all reports. We adhere to the highest ethical and editorial standards, ensuring that each article is presented professionally and without bias. Reports are thoroughly fact-checked, and sources are deeply investigated to ensure precise documentation of facts.
Plagiarism
At Action Packed, we do not tolerate any form of plagiarism or dishonest practices. It is a fundamental rule that all content must be clear and accurate, both in form and substance. We recognize our readers and audiences as unique, and therefore, the information we provide must be thoroughly verified to ensure it is truthful and precise. We are committed to being a reliable and impartial source of information. Any material from other sources, quoted verbatim, must be clearly attributed. We strictly prohibit any form of plagiarism.
Fact-Checking
At Action Packed, we promote accuracy and reliability across all our content. This means every article and news piece published undergoes meticulous fact-checking. Our editorial team conducts multiple levels of review to verify facts before publication. We work diligently to ensure the accuracy of facts, asking additional questions and providing evidence that all data, quotes, and statements presented are trustworthy. We recognize our responsibility to maintain our credibility as an objective and impartial media outlet, adhering to journalistic ethics and standards. Thus, we commit to rigorous fact-checking processes to ensure all information on our site meets the highest standards of accuracy.
Rights and Permissions
Action Packed prides itself on having a team of reporters and editors committed to enhancing the credibility of its publications. We are dedicated to providing reliable, trustworthy, and impartial information to our readers. Therefore, it is crucial that our reporters and editors carefully review materials before publishing. Particular attention must be paid to rights and permissions. If any content has usage restrictions or is copyrighted, reporters and editors must obtain proper authorization. Action Packed strictly adheres to universally established journalistic and editorial ethical standards. Our main priority is to be a trustworthy and honest source of information for our readers.
Editing and Rewriting
At Action Packed, we are committed to providing truthful, precise, honest, and reliable information to our readers. To achieve this, editors are responsible for reviewing and, if necessary, updating and rewriting articles submitted by reporters to ensure accuracy. Editing and rewriting should be based on the content provided by reporters, without altering facts, misinterpreting information, or changing the expressed viewpoints. All proposed changes must be first accepted by the journalist and approved by a senior editor before publication. The editorial staff must maintain the highest level of transparency and strictly adhere to widely recognized ethical and editorial standards, reflecting Action Packed’s commitment to reliable information.
Distinguishing Editorial and Promotional Material
At Action Packed, we are strictly committed to maintaining our credibility and adhering to the highest journalistic ethics. Our editorial guidelines include a clear distinction between editorial and promotional content. This policy ensures proper and informative labeling of promotional material. We are dedicated to ensuring that our media remains a trustworthy source of impartial information.
Quality Control and Review
At Action Packed, we are committed to delivering high-quality and reliable information to our readers. We adhere to strict journalistic ethics to ensure our content is complete and accurate. After editing and publishing, we conduct thorough quality control to meet our editorial policy requirements. When complaints or corrections are needed, our team promptly reviews and updates the work to maintain reader trust. We follow established protocols for content provision, editing, and approval. Additionally, we review correction requests and make necessary updates even after publication to ensure ongoing quality and reliability.
Use of AI-Generated Content
At Action Packed, we are fundamentally committed to the accuracy and quality of the content published on our site. As a reliable and authoritative information source, we ensure that our content reflects respected editorial standards and journalistic ethics. Therefore, while we strive to provide content that meets these standards, we also reserve the right to generate written, visual, and/or video content using Artificial Intelligence (AI). This will be done solely to provide our readers with updated, relevant, safe, and high-quality information. Our AI-generated content will still be audited and reviewed by editors to ensure quality and adherence to journalistic ethics.
Handling Explicit Content
At Action Packed, we take our responsibility to present explicit content with integrity seriously. Our editorial processes ensure the ethical treatment of violent and explicit content, content involving children or other vulnerable individuals, and live content. We create reliable and impartial content for our readers, adhering to all known journalistic and ethical standards, and strive to present the most accurate depiction of events. Action Packed upholds its principles to build a next-generation media outlet that maintains a high level of credibility in its journalistic content.
Source Responsibility and Safety
At Action Packed, the privacy and safety of our journalistic sources are paramount. We ensure responsible treatment of our sources and protect their anonymity when justified. Our team adheres to journalistic ethics, maintaining our credibility as a reliable, neutral, and truthful information source. We use a wide variety of sources to gather and verify evidence before publishing, ensuring the balance of our content and respecting the principle of journalistic fairness.
Separation of News and Opinion
The editorial guidelines at Action Packed ensure a clear distinction between news content and opinion, as well as between news content and content provided by non-journalistic external entities, requiring labeling or an equivalent mechanism. This reflects our commitment to providing truthful, impartial, and objective information. At Action Packed, we are dedicated to maintaining credibility by adhering to common journalistic ethics and standards. We strive to be open in seeking and using diverse viewpoints while clearly separating news content from non-journalistic content and opinions. We are committed to respecting the truth and integrity of our content, avoiding biases, partial approaches, or value judgments.
External Oversight
To emphasize Action Packed’s commitment to transparency, trust, and accountability, we have established an external verification system for our editorial line. This is achieved through our independent and effective external oversight, which serves as a form of accountability for our journalistic principles. This external supervision adds credibility and truthfulness to our brand, ensuring compliance with all current journalistic ethics and standards. We take pride in serving our community as a reliable, impartial, and independent news source.
Hate Speech
At Action Packed, we strive to provide high-quality, trustworthy information in line with established ethical and editorial standards. We do not publish content that harasses, intimidates, or bothers any individual or group. Harassment and bullying can take various forms, such as threats, revealing personal identity information, and unsolicited malicious contact. We promote a safe and respectful platform free from hate speech. We are fully aware of our ethical and social obligations, and we are committed to ensuring that no content is broadcast or advertised in a discriminatory or condemnatory manner.
Copyright
At Action Packed, we respect the privacy and protection of personal information. We must balance respecting individuals’ privacy with our right to disseminate information of public interest, adhering to ethical, regulatory, and legal obligations. Any invasion of privacy must be justified by public interest. When reporting stories involving human suffering and distress, we balance individuals’ privacy with public interest. We ensure content from social media and public websites considers privacy expectations. Action Packed never shares content that infringes copyright and always respects ownership rights, maintaining credibility and adherence to ethical standards.
Political Content
At Action Packed, we are committed to maintaining political neutrality both locally and globally, providing reliable and high-quality information without favoring any political party. Our journalists are dedicated to reflecting the truth of facts and being completely impartial, adhering to commonly known ethical and journalistic responsibility standards. We are also committed to avoiding political bias in our coverage of any global political events. At Action Packed, credibility and journalistic ethics come first.
Religious Content
At Action Packed, we understand the importance of respecting human rights and freedom of thought and religion. In accordance with international agreements, including the European Convention on Human Rights and the Human Rights Act 1998, we recognize the right to practice and observe religion freely. Media must responsibly handle religious content, ensuring beliefs are not subject to abuse. Authors have editorial freedom to express faith but must protect vulnerable readers from exploitation. Religious content should not recruit readers or solicit religious membership. We uphold ethical and editorial standards to maintain credibility and impartiality.
Self-Harm and Suicide
At Action Packed, we require media to uphold high responsibility and credibility by adhering to ethical journalism standards. Content related to suicide and self-harm must be handled with sensitivity. Self-harm includes intentional injury, such as mutilation and eating disorders. We will not publish content promoting suicide or self-harm. Explicit details enabling imitation of suicide methods are strictly prohibited. We are aware that some individuals might mimic described behaviors, and we tailor our information accordingly to prevent this.
Sexual Content
At Action Packed, as a reliable and impartial information source, we adhere to common journalistic standards and ethics. Our editorial policy prohibits graphic sexual content, including explicit texts, images, audio, or video clips. We also do not share content related to sex against one’s will or that could be interpreted as promoting sexual activity for compensation.