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The Xylom is guided by the industry’s best practices, specifically the Institute for Nonprofit News’ guidelines for Editorial Independence & Donor Transparency as well as for Equity and Inclusion; the Society of Professional Journalists’ Code of Ethics; The New York Times’ corrections policy; and others as we determine the need. For any questions regarding our policies, please email info@thexylom.com.
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Editorial independence policy
We subscribe to standards of editorial independence adopted by the Institute for Nonprofit News:
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Donor and financial transparency
We are committed to transparency in every aspect of funding our organization.
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Accepting financial support does not mean we endorse donors or their products, services, or opinions.
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We accept gifts, grants, and sponsorships from individuals, organizations, and foundations to help with our general operations, coverage of specific topics, and special projects.
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Our news judgments are made independently – not based on or influenced by donors or any revenue source. We do not give supporters the rights to assign, review or edit content.
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We make public all revenue sources and donors who give $5,000 or more per year. As a news nonprofit, we avoid accepting charitable donations from anonymous sources, government entities, political parties, elected officials or candidates seeking public office. We will not accept donations from sources who, deemed by our board of directors, present a conflict of interest with our work or compromise our independence.
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Equity and Inclusion
The Xylom reflects the racial and gender diversity of the communities we serve, in our staff and contributors, as well as in our editorial choices and priorities.
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Code of Ethics
We subscribe to the Society of Professional Journalists’ Code of Ethics:
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Seek Truth and Report It: Ethical journalism should be accurate and fair. Journalists should be honest and courageous in gathering, reporting, and interpreting information.
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Minimize Harm: Ethical journalism treats sources, subjects, colleagues, and members of the public as human beings deserving of respect.
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Act Independently: The highest and primary obligation of ethical journalism is to serve the public.
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Be Accountable and Transparent: Ethical journalism means taking responsibility for one’s work and explaining one’s decisions to the public.
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Corrections policy
We correct errors as soon as we are able to verify the correct information. The correction will be appended to the original article. We welcome complaints about errors of fact. You may contact us at info@thexylom.com.
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