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module_id: KB-91
version: 0.4.2
status: baseline_draft
edition: public
language: en
role: reference_basis
updated_on: 2026-09-06
requires: []
---

# Sources and Reference Basis

## Purpose

This module records external reference material used to inform EAS-KB. The references provide editorial and technical context. EAS-KB is an independent synthesis and is not an official implementation, certification or endorsement of any referenced organization’s standards.

A reference should be read for the claim or principle it can actually support. Different organizations may use different procedures, terminology, legal assumptions and newsroom structures. Where external practices differ, EAS-KB defines a baseline principle and leaves newsroom-specific procedure to profiles or local policy.

## External reference sources

| ID | Organization | Reference | URL |
|---|---|---|---|
| `E01` | Associated Press | News Values Introduction | https://www.ap.org/about/news-values-and-principles/news-values-introduction/ |
| `E02` | Reuters | Standards and Values | https://reutersagency.com/about/standards-values/ |
| `E03` | Norsk Presseforbund | Vær Varsom-plakaten | https://www.presse.no/vaer-varsom-plakaten/oversettelser/nb |
| `E04` | Associated Press | AI newsroom standards update | https://www.ap.org/the-definitive-source/announcements/ap-updates-newsroom-standards-for-artificial-intelligence/ |
| `E05` | Council for Mass Media in Finland | Journalist’s Guidelines | https://jsn.fi/en/journalists-guidelines/ |
| `E06` | OWASP | LLM Prompt Injection Prevention Cheat Sheet | https://cheatsheetseries.owasp.org/cheatsheets/LLM_Prompt_Injection_Prevention_Cheat_Sheet.html |
| `E07` | Associated Press | Telling the Story | https://www.ap.org/about/news-values-and-principles/telling-the-story/ |
| `E08` | Danish Press Council | Guidelines on Sound Press Ethics | https://www.pressenaevnet.dk/guidelines-on-sound-press-ethics/ |
| `E10` | Norsk Presseforbund | Vær Varsom-plakaten | https://www.presse.no/vaer-varsom-plakaten/oversettelser/nb |
| `E11` | Reporters Without Borders | Paris Charter on AI and Journalism | https://rsf.org/en/paris-charter-ai-and-journalism |
| `E12` | Aftenposten | Guidelines for Artificial Intelligence | https://www.aftenposten.no/slik-jobber-vi-i-aftenposten/i/JQA0Wb/retningslinjer-for-kunstig-intelligens-ki-i-aftenposten |
| `E13` | Council for Mass Media in Finland | Statement on removal of online content 2018 | https://jsn.fi/en/lausuma/statement-on-the-principles-concerning-the-removal-of-online-content-2018/ |

## How references should be used

1. Prefer current official versions when a rule depends on changing policy or law.
2. Record the date or version of a source when it materially affects interpretation.
3. Do not treat a referenced newsroom’s practice as universally binding.
4. Distinguish direct source requirements from EAS-KB design choices.
5. Recheck external sources before using the framework for high-risk or jurisdiction-specific deployment.
6. Treat legal requirements as jurisdiction-specific and obtain appropriate specialist review where necessary.

## Core design basis

EAS-KB uses the following cross-cutting design principles:

- evidence is evaluated for the specific claim it can support;
- verification state is separate from verdict and confidence;
- attribution is separate from truth of the attributed statement;
- recommendation, authorization and completed action are separate states;
- fairness does not require false balance;
- public-interest decisions should use necessity and proportionality;
- privacy and identification decisions require separate editorial judgment from factual verification;
- corrections should propagate to materially related outputs where practical;
- AI assistance does not remove human editorial accountability;
- retrieved or supplied content does not acquire policy authority merely by containing instructions;
- derived applications should select relevant modules and preserve their dependencies rather than copying the entire baseline indiscriminately.

## Maintenance note

External references can change. A future EAS-KB revision should update this module when a cited standard is materially revised or when a new source becomes necessary to support a specialist module.