Policies
ETHICS GUIDELINES & CORRECTIONS
The stories featured on "LA Radio Club Presents" are produced in accordance with the NPR Ethics guidelines.
LA Radio Club corrects significant errors in broadcast and online reports. Corrections of errors will be made in audio archives, written transcripts and on the website. To report an error, please email us at losangelesradioclub@gmail.com.
DONOR TRANSPARENCY POLICY
As an independent nonprofit newsroom, transparency is one of our highest priorities. As such we recognize that the quality of our work is not only a result of our reporting process, but also of our donors and the nature of our relationships with them. The credibility of our work is directly tied to the credibility of our funding sources, and the LARC Donor Transparency Policy serves as a formal acknowledgement of this fact.
All donors will be personally acknowledged by LARC for their donation & publicly listed on our website
All donations received by LARC will be used to further our mission, and support both our general operations as well as directly finance our projects.
Accepting financial support does not mean we endorse our donors, their products, services or opinions.
The majority of donor contributions to the GRC are from identified individual donors and foundations. If, however, an anonymous donation over $1,000 is made, the contribution will only be accepted once a review of any potential conflict of interest is conducted. We will not accept any donations from sources who could present a conflict of interest with our work or compromise our editorial independence.
EDITORIAL INDEPENDENCE POLICY
LARC subscribes to standards of editorial independence adopted by the Institute for Nonprofit News:
Our organization retains full authority over editorial content to protect the best journalistic and business interests of our organization. We maintain a firewall between news coverage decisions and sources of all revenue. Acceptance of financial support does not constitute implied or actual endorsement of donors or their products, services or opinions.
We accept gifts, grants and sponsorships from individuals and organizations for the general support of our activities, but our news judgments are made independently and not on the basis of donor support.
Our organization may consider donations to support the coverage of particular topics, but our organization maintains editorial control of the coverage. We will cede no right of review or influence of editorial content, nor of unauthorized distribution of editorial content.
Our organization will make public all donors who give a total of $5,000 or more per year. We will accept anonymous donations for general support only if it is clear that sufficient safeguards have been put into place that the expenditure of that donation is made independently by our organization and in compliance with INN’s Membership Standards.
CONFLICT OF INTEREST POLICY
LARC subscribes to conflict of interest policy adopted by National Public Radio:
In minor cases, we might satisfy an apparent conflict by prominently disclosing it, and perhaps explaining to the public why it doesn't compromise our work. When presented with more significant conflicts that might affect our ongoing work, our best response is to avoid them. But some conflicts are unavoidable, and may require us to recuse ourselves from certain coverage. For more specific guidance on how to make these decisions appears, we refer to the full NPR policy & guidelines document.