Livingscoop.com Editorial Policy

Last Updated: April 01, 2009

The purpose of this document is to outline the principles, practices and policies livingscoop.com (hereinafter called "Livingscoop") upholds in delivering the highest standards of editorial free speech and freedom of expression to our users. Livingscoop strives to achieve and support the high standards in videojournalism today through good judgment and a commitment to our editorial principles, practices and process.

Our Principles

We adhere to a common set of professional journalistic principles that guide our staff, our processes and our operations. We maintain an individual and collective responsibility to uphold these principles throughout our team.

Responsibility

We believe that videographs are the visual communication of a story and should be held to an equal level of accountability, responsibility and integrity as the written word in journalism. Images illustrate and reflect the events and people of our world today and therefore have a responsibility to be delivered to any viewer with accuracy and quality.

Independence

Only Livingscoop users (whether Standard or Pros, hereinafter called "Scooper", "Scoopers") will have control over the videojournalism process. At no time do we permit individuals or groups to have influence over their editorial coverage or workflow. Their editorial coverage is free of obligation and has no conflict of interest in its creation or production process.

Freedom of expression

Free speech and freedom of expression are the driving force behind all that we do and it is a founding principle of Livingscoop team. Our commitment to free speech and freedom of expression follows the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America and Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Livingscoop will never be responsible for any content posted, uploaded or streamed live.

Our Practices

We have instituted clear and non-ambiguous practices to uphold our core principles. These practices comprise our code of conduct that is expected of all levels of Scoopers, contributors and partners of Livingscoop.

  • Livingscoop Scoopers maintain complete control over the gathering and distribution of editorial videos.
  • Livingscoop will not accept special editorial access, control or privileges by virtue of Livingscoop commercial relationships.
  • We allow Scoopers to operate in a self-serving manner, and to let their personal opinions influence the coverage of stories or events, nor shall a third party be allowed to dictate or influence their editorial process. The latter will be at the sole appreciation of the website viewers.
  • We will never censor any editorial coverage or reportage.
  • All images will be watermaked (with Livingscoop) and credited to reflect the source (if applicable). See video credit details below.
  • Post-editorial licensing of videos will be in accordance with news-industry standards.

    Our Video Credit Policies

  • Credit: Livingscoop

    All images captioned with a credit 'Livingscoop' are the product of Livingscoop' complete editorial control.

  • Credit: (News Service)/Livingscoop

    This credit is based on the long-standing wire service tradition of sharing the editorial process between news organizations. This credit would only apply when the news service is a Livingscoop's granted party.

    In some cases this credit could appear as 'Livingscoop/(News Service)'. This credit indicates that Livingscoop is the originating party for news coverage and the news service is the distributing party.

  • Credit: Livingscoop for (Editorial Publication)

    This credit would be used if Livingscoop provides video assignment services to editorial organizations.

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