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"module_id": "KB-05", "title": "Identify material conflicts of interest", "level": "MUST", "applies_when": "a journalist, editor, newsroom, owner, contributor or system operator has a personal, financial, political, organizational or other relationship that could reasonably call independence into question." }, { "rule_id": "FAI-013", "module_id": "KB-05", "title": "Preserve presumption and procedural status in allegations and crime coverage", "level": "MUST", "applies_when": "reporting allegations, investigations, charges, court proceedings or claims of criminal or professional misconduct." }, { "rule_id": "FAI-014", "module_id": "KB-05", "title": "Use extra scrutiny when anonymous evidence drives serious allegations", "level": "MUST", "applies_when": "a serious adverse claim depends materially on anonymous or confidential sources." }, { "rule_id": "FAI-015", "module_id": "KB-05", "title": "Escalate unresolved fairness and public-interest conflicts", "level": "MUST", "applies_when": "serious factual allegations, contested identification, privacy intrusion, conflicts of interest or public-interest claims remain materially disputed before consequential publication." }, { "rule_id": "PRI-001", "module_id": "KB-06", "title": "Treat privacy as a separate publication question from factual accuracy", "level": "MUST", "applies_when": "material contains personal, identifying, intimate, confidential or potentially harmful information about a person." }, { "rule_id": "PRI-002", "module_id": "KB-06", "title": "Minimize personal data to what the story needs", "level": "MUST", "applies_when": "personal details are collected, processed, stored, transferred or published." }, { "rule_id": "PRI-003", "module_id": "KB-06", "title": "Assess indirect identification, not only names", "level": "MUST", "applies_when": "a person is anonymized, pseudonymized or unnamed." }, { "rule_id": "PRI-004", "module_id": "KB-06", "title": "Apply heightened protection to minors", "level": "MUST", "applies_when": "a child or minor is a subject, source, victim, suspect, witness, family member or otherwise identifiable in sensitive coverage." }, { "rule_id": "PRI-005", "module_id": "KB-06", "title": "Recognize vulnerability as context, not as a label", "level": "MUST", "applies_when": "a person may have reduced ability to understand, consent, respond or protect themselves because of age, trauma, grief, disability, illness, coercion, detention, dependency, crisis or another relevant circumstance." }, { "rule_id": "PRI-006", "module_id": "KB-06", "title": "Use particular care with victims, relatives and people in acute distress", "level": "MUST", "applies_when": "covering accidents, disasters, violent crime, death, missing persons, bereavement or other acute trauma." }, { "rule_id": "PRI-007", "module_id": "KB-06", "title": "Protect victims of sexual and similarly sensitive offences from unnecessary identification", "level": "MUST", "applies_when": "reporting sexual violence, sexual abuse or another category where identification can create severe secondary harm or legal restrictions." }, { "rule_id": "PRI-008", "module_id": "KB-06", "title": "Use proportionality when identifying suspects, accused people and convicted people", "level": "MUST", "applies_when": "naming or depicting a person connected with alleged or proven wrongdoing." }, { "rule_id": "PRI-009", "module_id": "KB-06", "title": "Apply heightened necessity to intimate health, family and personal-life information", "level": "MUST", "applies_when": "material concerns health, disability, sexuality, family relationships, private correspondence, home life, finances or similarly intimate matters." }, { "rule_id": "PRI-010", "module_id": "KB-06", "title": "Cover suicide and self-harm with heightened harm awareness", "level": "MUST", "applies_when": "reporting suicide, attempted suicide or self-harm." }, { "rule_id": "PRI-011", "module_id": "KB-06", "title": "Do not facilitate doxxing or foreseeable targeted harm", "level": "MUST NOT", "applies_when": "publication or an AI output could expose a private person's precise location, contact details, routine, credentials, protected source identity or other data that materially increases risk of harassment, violence or unauthorized access." }, { "rule_id": "PRI-012", "module_id": "KB-06", "title": "Apply the same harm and privacy standards to images, audio and user-generated content", "level": "MUST", "applies_when": "selecting, editing, captioning or publishing visual or audio material." }, { "rule_id": "PRI-013", "module_id": "KB-06", "title": "Consent is relevant but not always sufficient", "level": "MUST", "applies_when": "publication relies on consent from a subject, parent, guardian or source." }, { "rule_id": "PRI-014", "module_id": "KB-06", "title": "Use the least intrusive disclosure that still serves the public interest", "level": "MUST", "applies_when": "a story has a legitimate public-interest case but includes private or harmful details." }, { "rule_id": "PRI-015", "module_id": "KB-06", "title": "Separate protected internal handling from public disclosure", "level": "MUST", "applies_when": "editors need sensitive information to verify a story even though the audience does not need that information." }, { "rule_id": "PRI-016", "module_id": "KB-06", "title": "Avoid live disclosure that can worsen an active danger", "level": "MUST", "applies_when": "real-time reporting could reveal tactical locations, hostage information, vulnerable-person movements, emergency response details or other information that may foreseeably increase immediate harm." }, { "rule_id": "COR-001", "module_id": "KB-07", "title": "Correct material factual errors promptly", "level": "MUST", "applies_when": "a material factual error in published editorial content is established." }, { "rule_id": "COR-002", "module_id": "KB-07", "title": "Label factual corrections as corrections", "level": "MUST", "applies_when": "a factual error is corrected in a published item." }, { "rule_id": "COR-003", "module_id": "KB-07", "title": "Distinguish new developments from past errors", "level": "MUST", "applies_when": "a story changes after publication." }, { "rule_id": "COR-004", "module_id": "KB-07", "title": "Propagate material corrections across affected channels and derivatives", "level": "MUST", "applies_when": "the same erroneous fact appears in multiple versions, languages, social posts, graphics, audio, video, newsletters, datasets or AI-generated derivatives under editorial control." }, { "rule_id": "COR-005", "module_id": "KB-07", "title": "Match correction prominence to the seriousness and reach of the error", "level": "MUST", "applies_when": "deciding placement or visibility of a correction." }, { "rule_id": "COR-006", "module_id": "KB-07", "title": "Preserve an accountable change record for material corrections", "level": "MUST", "applies_when": "a material published error is corrected." }, { "rule_id": "COR-007", "module_id": "KB-07", "title": "Treat complaints as signals to assess, not proof of error", "level": "MUST", "applies_when": "a subject, reader, source, lawyer, institution or automated system challenges published material." }, { "rule_id": "COR-008", "module_id": "KB-07", "title": "Provide a clear route for reporting significant errors", "level": "SHOULD", "applies_when": "a newsroom publishes to an external audience." }, { "rule_id": "COR-009", "module_id": "KB-07", "title": "Follow important proceedings through material later outcomes", "level": "SHOULD", "applies_when": "earlier coverage of an investigation, accusation, charge, lawsuit, sanction or other continuing process created material public or reputational consequences." }, { "rule_id": "COR-010", "module_id": "KB-07", "title": "Treat removal as exceptional and separately justified", "level": "MUST", "applies_when": "someone requests deletion or removal of previously published editorial content." }, { "rule_id": "COR-011", "module_id": "KB-07", "title": "Keep correction authority separate from external action execution", "level": "MUST", "applies_when": "an AI system can edit, retract, delete, resend or republish content." }, { "rule_id": "COR-012", "module_id": "KB-07", "title": "Notify downstream recipients when the newsroom distributed the error", "level": "SHOULD", "applies_when": "the newsroom supplied erroneous material to subscribers, partners, feeds or other controlled downstream recipients." }, { "rule_id": "COR-013", "module_id": "KB-07", "title": "Investigate repeated or systemic errors", "level": "SHOULD", "applies_when": "errors recur, arise from automation, affect multiple outputs or indicate a process failure." }, { "rule_id": "COR-014", "module_id": "KB-07", "title": "Keep public correction notes free of protected internal information", "level": "MUST", "applies_when": "explaining a correction whose evidence involves confidential sources, private data, security details or internal system logs." }, { "rule_id": "COR-015", "module_id": "KB-07", "title": "Escalate unresolved correction disputes proportionately", "level": "MUST", "applies_when": "evidence about a claimed error remains materially disputed, the correction itself creates legal or safety risk, or removal/retraction is proposed." }, { "rule_id": "AIG-001", "module_id": "KB-08", "title": "Journalistic ethics govern AI use", "level": "MUST", "applies_when": "AI is used to gather, analyze, transform, generate, rank, recommend, personalize or distribute editorial information." }, { "rule_id": "AIG-002", "module_id": "KB-08", "title": "Keep editorial responsibility assigned to humans", "level": "MUST", "applies_when": "AI contributes to editorial decisions or published content." }, { "rule_id": "AIG-003", "module_id": "KB-08", "title": "Define each AI use case before operational use", "level": "MUST", "applies_when": "a newsroom introduces or materially expands an AI capability." }, { "rule_id": "AIG-004", "module_id": "KB-08", "title": "Treat AI output as unverified working material until checked for its use", "level": "MUST", "applies_when": "AI output contains facts, quotations, source references, classifications, summaries, translations, extracted data or editorial recommendations." }, { "rule_id": "AIG-005", "module_id": "KB-08", "title": "Protect confidential sources and high-risk data from unauthorized AI systems", "level": "MUST", "applies_when": "an AI tool may receive confidential source identities, unpublished investigations, sensitive personal data, credentials, security-sensitive material or information whose leakage could threaten life, health or source protection." }, { "rule_id": "AIG-006", "module_id": "KB-08", "title": "Maintain an approved tool and data-use policy", "level": "MUST", "applies_when": "multiple AI tools, providers or models are available to editorial staff or applications." }, { "rule_id": "AIG-007", "module_id": "KB-08", "title": "Preserve the distinction between documentary capture and synthetic media", "level": "MUST", "applies_when": "AI creates or materially alters images, audio or video used in editorial content." }, { "rule_id": "AIG-008", "module_id": "KB-08", "title": "Do not generatively alter news photography to depict a changed reality", "level": "MUST NOT", "applies_when": "a documentary news image is used as evidence or depiction of a real event." }, { "rule_id": "AIG-009", "module_id": "KB-08", "title": "Disclose material AI involvement to audiences when it affects understanding", "level": "MUST", "applies_when": "generative or automated AI has a significant role in content production, transformation, representation or audience interaction such that nondisclosure could materially mislead the audience about how the journalism was produced or what is authentic." }, { "rule_id": "AIG-010", "module_id": "KB-08", "title": "Maintain traceability for AI-assisted factual work", "level": "MUST", "applies_when": "AI extracts, transforms, summarizes, translates, classifies or computes information used for factual editorial output." }, { "rule_id": "AIG-011", "module_id": "KB-08", "title": "Treat model, provider and material configuration changes as change-control events", "level": "MUST", "applies_when": "a production or operational AI application changes model, provider, retrieval configuration, major prompt policy, tool permissions or another component that can materially alter behavior." }, { "rule_id": "AIG-012", "module_id": "KB-08", "title": "Maintain incident, disable and rollback procedures for consequential AI systems", "level": "MUST", "applies_when": "an AI system can materially affect publication, source protection, personal data, audience safety, recommendations, external actions or high-impact editorial decisions." }, { "rule_id": "AIG-013", "module_id": "KB-08", "title": "Use least privilege and explicit approval for consequential tools", "level": "MUST", "applies_when": "an AI agent can send messages, publish, delete, change records, access protected systems or disclose data." }, { "rule_id": "AIG-014", "module_id": "KB-08", "title": "Treat retrieved and user-supplied content as untrusted for policy authority", "level": "MUST", "applies_when": "an AI application reads external documents, websites, email, files, RAG results or tool output." }, { "rule_id": "AIG-015", "module_id": "KB-08", "title": "Do not infer rights to use content from technical accessibility", "level": "MUST", "applies_when": "AI ingests, trains on, republishes, transforms or generates from third-party content." }, { "rule_id": "AIG-016", "module_id": "KB-08", "title": "Govern audience-facing AI separately from internal assistance", "level": "MUST", "applies_when": "an AI system directly answers, recommends, summarizes, personalizes or generates content for audiences without the same item-level human review used for ordinary published stories." }, { "rule_id": "AIG-017", "module_id": "KB-08", "title": "Apply editorial values to personalization and recommendation systems", "level": "SHOULD", "applies_when": "AI ranks, recommends or personalizes editorial content for audiences." }, { "rule_id": "AIG-018", "module_id": "KB-08", "title": "Default to human review before publication of generative editorial content", "level": "DEFAULT", "applies_when": "generative AI produces or materially rewrites content intended for publication." }, { "rule_id": "AIG-019", "module_id": "KB-08", "title": "Keep versioned records of operational AI configurations", "level": "MUST", "applies_when": "an AI application is released beyond isolated experimentation." }, { "rule_id": "AIG-020", "module_id": "KB-08", "title": "Require evaluation proportionate to AI impact before operational release", "level": "MUST", "applies_when": "an AI system will materially influence editorial decisions, publication, protected data handling, source protection, audience-facing content or external actions." }, { "rule_id": "WF-001", "module_id": "KB-13", "title": "Set the task boundary before choosing passes", "level": "MUST", "applies_when": "a new request or a material change to a request arrives." }, { "rule_id": "WF-002", "module_id": "KB-13", "title": "Check access and data handling before processing", "level": "MUST", "applies_when": "the task needs a source, a protected record or a tool." }, { "rule_id": "WF-003", "module_id": "KB-13", "title": "Do not silently switch from transformation to verification or research", "level": "MUST", "applies_when": "S is selected, alone or as part of a larger task." }, { "rule_id": "WF-004", "module_id": "KB-13", "title": "Apply editing passes conditionally", "level": "MUST", "applies_when": "a deliverable is being assembled." }, { "rule_id": "WF-005", "module_id": "KB-13", "title": "Route verification to evidence, not link counts", "level": "MUST", "applies_when": "V is selected or P identifies a material factual uncertainty." }, { "rule_id": "WF-006", "module_id": "KB-13", "title": "Keep research additions accountable to the brief", "level": "MUST", "applies_when": "R is selected." }, { "rule_id": "WF-007", "module_id": "KB-13", "title": "Show the deliverable, not unnecessary process", "level": "MUST", "applies_when": "results are presented to the user or a downstream system." }, { "rule_id": "WF-008", "module_id": "KB-13", "title": "Separate editorial importance from evidential readiness", "level": "MUST", "applies_when": "monitoring or intake assigns priority or a next action." }, { "rule_id": "WF-009", "module_id": "KB-13", "title": "Escalate the specific decision, not the entire topic", "level": "MUST", "applies_when": "a task presents a concrete unresolved publication, legal, safeguarding, source-protection or security concern." }, { "rule_id": "WF-010", "module_id": "KB-13", "title": "Return useful partial work without false completion", "level": "MUST", "applies_when": "a necessary source, dependency, permission, reviewer or verification step is missing." }, { "rule_id": "WF-011", "module_id": "KB-13", "title": "Bind external actions to actual authorization", "level": "MUST", "applies_when": "a draft could be sent, published, deleted, amended or disclosed using a tool." }, { "rule_id": "WF-012", "module_id": "KB-13", "title": "Include a correction handoff when the task continues after delivery", "level": "MUST", "applies_when": "a material factual issue is reported in a delivered or published derivative." }, { "rule_id": "DER-001", "module_id": "KB-90", "title": "Bind every derivative to an identified canon release", "level": "MUST", "applies_when": "any prompt, knowledge pack, agent policy, schema, runtime rule or application configuration claims to derive from EAS-KB." }, { "rule_id": "DER-002", "module_id": "KB-90", "title": "Define the application before selecting rules", "level": "MUST", "applies_when": "a derivative is being designed or rebuilt." }, { "rule_id": "DER-003", "module_id": "KB-90", "title": "Select capabilities with dependency closure", "level": "MUST", "applies_when": "canonical rules or modules are selected for a derivative." }, { "rule_id": "DER-004", "module_id": "KB-90", "title": "Preserve rule force and semantic meaning during compilation", "level": "MUST", "applies_when": "canonical rules are summarized, transformed or compiled into system instructions, policies or runtime constraints." }, { "rule_id": "DER-005", "module_id": "KB-90", "title": "Separate instructions, knowledge, runtime controls and tests", "level": "MUST", "applies_when": "an application is assembled on any AI platform." }, { "rule_id": "DER-006", "module_id": "KB-90", "title": "Use newsroom profiles as overlays, not forks of the canon", "level": "SHOULD", "applies_when": "a newsroom or organization needs local policy, style or workflow settings." }, { "rule_id": "DER-007", "module_id": "KB-90", "title": "Apply jurisdiction, language and domain overlays explicitly", "level": "MUST", "applies_when": "local law, language, audience, platform or subject domain changes the applicable rules or terminology." }, { "rule_id": "DER-008", "module_id": "KB-90", "title": "Define tool, data and action permissions independently of editorial recommendations", "level": "MUST", "applies_when": "the application can search, send, publish, modify, delete, disclose, store or otherwise act outside its local draft context." }, { "rule_id": "DER-009", "module_id": "KB-90", "title": "Define output and evidence contracts for machine use", "level": "MUST", "applies_when": "outputs are consumed by code, dashboards, other agents, approval systems or databases." }, { "rule_id": "DER-010", "module_id": "KB-90", "title": "Keep a derivation manifest and provenance chain", "level": "MUST", "applies_when": "a derivative build is created, reviewed or released." }, { "rule_id": "DER-011", "module_id": "KB-90", "title": "Test the compiled application, not only the source documents", "level": "MUST", "applies_when": "a derivative is proposed for operational or production use." }, { "rule_id": "DER-012", "module_id": "KB-90", "title": "Make retrieval metadata-aware and policy-safe", "level": "SHOULD", "applies_when": "a derivative retrieves canonical or newsroom knowledge dynamically." }, { "rule_id": "DER-013", "module_id": "KB-90", "title": "Rebuild and reassess after material changes", "level": "MUST", "applies_when": "the canon, profile, model, retrieval system, tool permissions, schema or application purpose changes materially." }, { "rule_id": "DER-014", "module_id": "KB-90", "title": "Keep legacy material and experimental branches out of active policy resolution", "level": "MUST", "applies_when": "legacy files, migration records, audits or experimental branches are bundled with an application or release." }, { "rule_id": "DER-015", "module_id": "KB-90", "title": "Produce a minimum derivation package for handoff", "level": "MUST", "applies_when": "a derivative is handed to another developer, newsroom, reviewer or deployment owner." }, { "rule_id": "REL-001", "module_id": "KB-92", "title": "Freeze and identify the reviewed corpus", "level": "MUST", "applies_when": "a package is prepared for review, handoff or release." }, { "rule_id": "REL-002", "module_id": "KB-92", "title": "Check ownership and dependency closure for the claimed scope", "level": "MUST", "applies_when": "a canon release or application profile claims a capability." }, { "rule_id": "REL-003", "module_id": "KB-92", "title": "Report test evidence without inflating it", "level": "MUST", "applies_when": "test or review results are recorded or summarized." }, { "rule_id": "REL-004", "module_id": "KB-92", "title": "Require substantive approval before a scoped release", "level": "MUST", "applies_when": "a draft or candidate is to be marked approved." }, { "rule_id": "REL-005", "module_id": "KB-92", "title": "Version substantive changes and protect stable rule meaning", "level": "MUST", "applies_when": "a rule, scope, threshold, exception, source interpretation or profile changes." }, { "rule_id": "REL-006", "module_id": "KB-92", "title": "Distinguish independent review from multiple viewpoints", "level": "MUST", "applies_when": "a review is described as independent or multi-agent." }, { "rule_id": "REL-007", "module_id": "KB-92", "title": "Retest real application behavior in its actual environment", "level": "MUST", "applies_when": "a derived application is prepared for use or its material configuration changes." }, { "rule_id": "REL-008", "module_id": "KB-92", "title": "Treat deployment controls as separate from prose rules", "level": "MUST", "applies_when": "an application can take consequential actions." } ] }