Whenever possible, Oswego Daily News staff will avoid work relating to their current or prior interests. Our community is small, however, and some crossover of interests is inevitable. In all cases, those competing interests will be disclosed. Journalists, editors, and Oswego Daily News will hold themselves accountable for the stories they write. They will be eager to receive complaints about their work, to investigate complaints diligently, and to correct mistakes of fact, context, and fairness prominently and clearly.
All news is written from an objective point of view.
We believe in, and promote, the free access to information upon which the internet was founded. Oswego Daily News will write its own stories, but will also provide space for the news releases, letters to the editor, opinion columns, and other content created by the community. We will run nearly everything we receive, as long as it is fair, meets basic legal standards, and is relevant to our audience. We will label all such material as having come from the person or agency who submitted it so that our readers may properly evaluate the information against its source. Our standards take their inspiration and some of their language from the ethical standards of Brill's Content magazine.