CITY ISLAND IMAGES * CODE OF CONDUCT

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City Island Images promotes the highest standards in graphics, video and audio journalism, as well as in news print. We are concerned with every individual's need both to be fully informed about public events and to be recognized as having equal rights in this world which we must live together.

Multimedia content providers operate as trustees of the public. Our primary role is to provide our visitors with the significant events and varied viewpoints in our common world. Our primary goal is the faithful and comprehensive depiction of the subject at hand. As citizen journalists, we have the responsibility to document society and to preserve its history through City Island Images.

Writing, recording, photographing and providing video images can reveal great truths, expose wrongdoing and neglect, inspire hope and understanding and connect people around the globe through the language of visual understanding. These can also cause great harm if they are callously intrusive or are manipulated.

This code is intended to promote the highest quality in all forms of sound and visual journalism. Also, to strengthen public confidence in the profession. Finally, it is meant to serve as an educational tool both for those who practice and for those who appreciate the latest and most accurate news and information content.

Code of Ethics

Journalists and those who manage audio-visual news productions are accountable for upholding the following standards in our daily work: We will

Be accurate and comprehensive in the representation of subjects.

Resist being manipulated by staged photo opportunities.

Be complete and provide context when photographing or recording subjects. Avoid stereotyping individuals and groups. Recognize and work to avoid presenting one's own biases in the work.

Treat all subjects with respect and dignity. Give special consideration to vulnerable subjects and compassion to victims of crime or tragedy. Intrude on private moments of grief only when the public has an overriding and justifiable need to see.

While reporting on subjects do not intentionally contribute to, alter, or seek to alter or influence events.

Editing should maintain the integrity of the photographic images' content and context. Do not manipulate images or add or alter sound in any way that can mislead viewers or misrepresent subjects.

Do not pay sources or subjects or reward them materially for information or participation.

Do not accept gifts, favors, or compensation from those who might seek to influence coverage.

Do not intentionally sabotage the efforts of other journalists.

Strive to ensure that the public's business is conducted in public. Defend the rights of access for all journalists.

Think proactively, as a student of psychology, sociology, politics and art to develop a unique vision and presentation. Work with a voracious appetite for current events and contemporary visual media.

Strive for total and unrestricted access to subjects, recommend alternatives to shallow or rushed opportunities, seek a diversity of viewpoints, and work to show unpopular or unnoticed points of view.

Avoid political, civic and business involvements or other employment that compromise or give the appearance of compromising one's own journalistic independence.

Strive to be unobtrusive and humble in dealing with subjects.

Respect the integrity of the moment.

Strive by example and influence to maintain the spirit and high standards expressed in this code. When confronted with situations in which the proper action is not clear, seek the counsel of those who exhibit the highest standards of our profession.

City Island Images
c/o IMAGINUS
PO Box 147
City Island Station
NYC, NY 10464

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