Standards

Ethics

The Chronicle's journalism is built on verification. We do not invent facts, quotes, statistics, visits, or first-person reporting. Every feature names its sources on the page.

• We report; we do not fabricate. Anything we did not witness is attributed.
• Opinion is labeled as opinion, always, and never presented as news.
• We avoid conflicts of interest and disclose the ones we cannot avoid.
• We treat subjects fairly and give them a chance to respond to consequential claims.
• We correct errors promptly and in the open.

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