Transparency Report

Section A: Identity and Transparency

Basic Requirements on Media’s Identity

1.1. Legal Entity Name

1. What is the Legal Entity Name?

Publishing House Media DC LLC

1.2. Contact Details and Identifiers

ADDRESS LINE 1

Kyrylivska street 86

POST CODE

04080

CITY

Kyiv

STATE / PROVINCE / REGION

Kyiv

COUNTRY

Ukraine

3. What is the general telephone number for the Legal Entity?

+380442377956

4. What is the email address for the Legal Entity?

[email protected]

5. Is the Legal Entity required to have a Tax ID, a Registration ID, a DUNS number and/or other identifiers?

Yes

5.a. What are these IDs for the Legal Entity?

EDRPOU Code (Unified State Register of Enterprises and Organizations of Ukraine Code) 39145695

6. Are there any other governmental or other identifiers that a certification body could use to verify the identity of the Legal Entity?

Yes

6.a. What are those identifiers?

For online media: Identifier in the Register of Media Entities: R40-02145; For magazine: Identifier in the Register of Media Entities: R30-03434

1.3. Description of Media Outlet

7. What Brand Name(s), titles, publication names, etc. do you use to publish Content?

NV
NV.ua
The New voice of Ukraine (NV's English-language version)
NV Magazine/ Журнал NV

1.4. Distribution Channels and URLs

8. Does the Media Outlet publish on any URLs?

Yes

8.a. On what URLs do you publish?

https://nv.ua/

9. Does the Media Outlet publish any content on any social media?

Yes

9.a. What are the social media URLs, handles, addresses or names that you use to publish?

https://www.facebook.com/media.NV
https://www.facebook.com/TheNewVoiceUkraine
https://www.facebook.com/biz.nv.ua/
https://www.facebook.com/NV.LifeStyle/
https://www.facebook.com/nvpodcasts
https://t.me/s/nvua_official
https://t.me/nv_podcasts
https://www.instagram.com/nv.ua/
https://www.instagram.com/nvmedia_life/
https://invite.viber.com/?g2=AQBHbKyWuqKwbFC28MgQmU5y7QxfoO4jYrbyjiK8eu5vZRFVLFxzBNP84Fssv&lang=uk
https://twitter.com/tweetsNV
https://twitter.com/NewVoiceUkraine
https://twitter.com/nvpodcasts
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFRkqOONCkI5jJ3oYFzJjvA
https://www.tiktok.com/@nv.ua
https://www.tiktok.com/@newvoicelife

10. Does the Media Outlet publish any content by broadcasting and/or streaming?

1.5. Safety Concerns

11. Do the Media Outlet's Editorial Guidelines state that the safety of all journalists shall be treated as a primary concern?

Yes

If you want to publish additional information, please provide it here.

For the NV team, the highest priority is the physical, psychological, and digital safety (including cybersecurity) of employees, including freelancers, independent contractors, and other support staff. No editorial assignment should be carried out at the cost of an unjustified risk to life or health.

12. Are there any reasons that the Media Outlet has for withholding information on any of the questions as part of this JTI Standard process?

1.6. Location

13. Is the physical address of the Legal Entity different from the postal address according to question no. 2?

Yes

13.a. What is the physical address of the Legal Entity?

Kyiv, Ukraine, 04080, 12 M. Kravchenka Street.

ADDRESS LINE 1

12 M. Kravchenka Street.

POST CODE

04080

CITY

Kyiv

COUNTRY

Ukraine

14. Do you have a safety-related reason for not providing it?

1.7. Founding Date

15. What is the founding date of the Legal Entity?

2014-03-24

16. Is the founding date of the Media Outlet (as in clause 1.3. question no. 7) different from that of the Legal Entity (as in clause 1.1. question no. 1)?

Editorial Mission

2.1. Editorial Mission Statement

17. Does your Media Outlet have an editorial mission statement, or stated set of principles or editorial values?

Yes

17.a. Provide that statement here

NV is an independent media holding created by a team of professional journalists in 2014. Today, it includes the NV magazine, the NV.UA news site, the nationwide talk Radio NV, discussion panels, and the English-language version of the site — The New Voice of Ukraine, launched in 2022.

The mission, values and professional standards followed by the editors and top management of media holding publications are determined by the Editorial Code of NV .

Our mission is to contribute to the formation of personal and economic freedoms, the rule of law and socio-cultural diversity in Ukraine.

The goal of all publications included in the NV media holding is reliable, balanced and prompt information to the audience about everything worth knowing in Ukraine and the world in the fields of politics, business, technology, health and sports.
NV adheres to the principles of editorial independence, accuracy, fairness, transparency, and accountability to its audience. We uphold these principles through this Editorial Code, internal editorial oversight procedures, mechanisms for correcting errors and handling complaints, regular review of editorial processes, and open engagement with our audience.

18. Is that statement posted online?

Yes

18.a. What is the URL where it is published?

https://nv.ua/ukr/project/redakciyna-politika-nv-50174372.html

Public Service Media

3.1. Public Service Media Mission, Governance and Independence

19. Is the Media Outlet a Public Service Media?

Disclosure of Type of Ownership

4.1. Privately held

20. Is the Media Outlet or the Legal Entity privately owned?

Yes

20.a. What is the form and status of the Media Outlet or Legal Entity according to the legal definition in the country of registration?

Limited Liability Company

4.2. State or Publicly owned

21. Is the Media Outlet or the Legal Entity owned by the state, a unit of the government or any other public entity?

4.3. Publicly Traded Company

22. Is the Media Outlet or the Legal Entity publicly traded?

4.4. Other

23. Is the ownership of the Media Outlet or the Legal Entity different from the three previous clauses in this section? For example, is it a co-operative or member-owned?

Requirements on Owners’ Identity

5.1. Names of Owners and Board Members

24. What are the names of all direct, indirect or beneficial owners?

Ultimate beneficial owner: FIALA TOMASH

25. Are the names of the owners in the previous question available online?

Yes

25.a. What is the URL that contains the names of the owners, or, if not available online, please indicate where that information can be obtained?

https://nv.ua/ukr/ownership-structure.html
https://opendatabot.ua/c/39145695
https://nv.ua/ukr/project/redakciyna-politika-nv-50174372.html#card_10

26. What are the names of the members of supervisory boards?

NV has an Advisory Board established to help the media organization shape its long-term strategy and oversee compliance with journalistic standards.

27. Are the names of the members of the supervisory board members in the previous question available online?

Yes

27.a. What is the URL of the page that contains the names of the people in the previous question?

https://nv.ua/ukr/blog/konsultativna-rada-nv-stvorena-z-inozemciv-yakiy-jiji-sklad-novini-ukrajini-50401984.html

28. Are the listed owners also founders or owners of other companies?

Yes

28.a. State here the names and main activities of those companies.

Dragon Capital Group of Companies — Investment and financial services.
JSC “UNEX BANK”, EDRPOU Code 20023569 — Banking and financial services.
LLC “UP MEDIA PLUS”, EDRPOU Code 44172411 — Online media and web portal activities.
LLC “UP MEDIA”, EDRPOU Code 44157477 — Intellectual property management and licensing.

28.b. What are the business sectors for the companies listed in the previous question?

Investment activities.
Banking services.
Media.

29. Are any of the owners active members of a political party or movement or candidates in a political election or current office holders?

5.2. Contact Details of Direct and Indirect Owners

30. What is the contact information for all direct and indirect owners?

For Ultimate beneficial owner: Ukraine, 08711, Kyiv region, Obukhiv district, Kozyn, Piddvoretska street, b/n building

31. Is the contact information in the previous question available online?

Yes

31.a. What is the URL with the contact information from the previous question?

https://youcontrol.com.ua/contractor/?id=5654266#express-universal-file

32. What is the contact information for the members of the board of directors?

Steven Pifer https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-pifer-4172b318/
Leonie Seifert: https://x.com/leonieseifert
William B. Taylor: https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/expert/william-taylor/
Tomas Bella: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomasbella/
Grzegorz Piechota: https://www.linkedin.com/in/grzegorzpiechota/

33. Is the contact information in the previous question available online?

Yes

5.3. Names of Shareholders

34. What are the names of the direct, majority or controlling shareholders? (If shareholders are companies, list the main activity and business sector of that company along with the name.)

Tomas Fiala - 100%

5.5. Exception for Member-owned Media Outlets

36. Is the Media Outlet member-owned?

Disclosure of Identity of the Management Team and its Location

6.1. Management Directory

37. What are the names, positions, and contact details of all members of management for the Media Outlet?

Vitaliy Sych — Editor-in-Chief of the NV project and Editor-in-Chief of NV magazine, e-mail: [email protected]
Olena Viter — Executive Director of Publishing House Media-DK LLC, e-mail: [email protected]
Oleh Lysenko — Head of the NV.ua project, e-mail: [email protected]
Yulia McGuffie — Editor-in-Chief of NV.ua, e-mail: [email protected]
Marichka Naboka — Head of Social Media and New Media, e-mail: [email protected]

6.2. Location of Branches and Offices

38. What is the physical address, phone number and email address of the headquarters of the Media Outlet?

86, Kyrylivska street, Kyiv, Ukraine, entrance from Kravchenka Street, 12, Kyiv, 04080
[email protected]
+380442377956

39. Does the Media Outlet have other main branches and offices?

40. Do you have a safety-related reason for not providing it?

Disclosure of Editorial Contact Details

7.1. Social Media

41. Does the Media Outlet have social media accounts for the public to use to make queries or respond to Content?

Yes

41.a. What are the URLs or other identification of all social media accounts used by members of the public to contact the Media Outlet?

https://www.facebook.com/media.NV
https://www.facebook.com/TheNewVoiceUkraine
https://www.facebook.com/biz.nv.ua/
https://www.facebook.com/NV.LifeStyle/
https://www.facebook.com/nvpodcasts
https://t.me/s/nvua_official
https://t.me/nv_podcasts
https://www.instagram.com/nv.ua/
https://www.instagram.com/nvmedia_life/
https://invite.viber.com/?g2=AQBHbKyWuqKwbFC28MgQmU5y7QxfoO4jYrbyjiK8eu5vZRFVLFxzBNP84Fssv&lang=uk
https://twitter.com/tweetsNV
https://twitter.com/NewVoiceUkraine
https://twitter.com/nvpodcasts
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFRkqOONCkI5jJ3oYFzJjvA
https://www.tiktok.com/@nv.ua
https://www.tiktok.com/@newvoicelife

7.2. Newsroom Contact Details

42. Does the Media Outlet have a person responsible for dealing with communication from the public regarding the Content?

Yes

43. Is the method for contacting that person or others at the Media Outlet clearly visible to the public?

Yes

44. In what ways does the staff of the Media Outlet responsible for the Content communicate back to the public results of queries, concerns, etc.?

NV has people responsible for dealing with communication from the public regarding the Content and people for customer service. NV has a special page on the website nv.ua with a list of such contacts (https://nv.ua/ukr/page/contacts.html). There are many different areas of work and different people are responsible for each area. Therefore, it is possible to immediately contact the person responsible for a specific area of work or write to the NV Editor-in-Chief.

7.3. Customer Service Contact Details

45. Does the Media Outlet have a department or a single person who is responsible for customer service?

Yes

45.a. What are the contact details, including telephone numbers, email addresses, correspondence addresses, for customer service or the equivalent within the Media Outlet?

The relevant departments and people are listed on this page, since it depends on the nature of the inquiry. https://nv.ua/ukr/page/contacts.html

Disclosure of Revenue Sources and Data Collection

8.1. Sources of Revenue

46. What are the categories of sources of revenue for the Media Outlet, ranked from largest to smallest? These may include subscriptions, advertising, major donors, donations, subsidies, fees, sales, memberships, sponsorships, events, etc.

Advertising, reader revenue, grant/donations.

47. Is the Media Outlet required to make financial disclosures?

48. What is the revenue of the Media Outlet?

The company reported a loss.

49. What is the ratio of the categories of revenue sources (as in question no. 46)?

Advertising (87,1%), reader revenue (10,4%), grant/donations (2,5%).

50. Is there any reason for safety and security that you have given incomplete data in this section?

8.2. Data collection disclosure

51. Does your Media Outlet process any personal information from online visitors on its own or with third parties?

Yes

51.a. What information is processed?

First name/last name, e-mail address, phone number (where applicable), account details, subscription and payment status information, delivery address (where applicable), inquiries/UGC, IP address, device/browser/OS information, technical and behavioral data, cookies, and other identifiers.

51.b. What is the purpose for gathering that information?

Operation and security of the resources; user accounts and subscriptions; payments/accounting; delivery; communications; analytics and product improvement; moderation; prevention of abuse.

51.c. By what methods is the information processed?

Directly from the user; automatically through cookies and other similar technologies; through analytics and audience measurement systems; from payment, social media, and other service providers. NV processes data both independently and with the involvement of third parties.

Section B: Professionalism and Accountability

Accountability for Journalism Principles

9.1 Editorial Guidelines

52. Does your Media Outlet have a set of guidelines, or adhere to an external set of guidelines, for journalistic content, distribution and conduct to which its journalistic operations comply?

Yes

52.a. Are they made available to the public in a readily accessible form?

Yes

52.a.i. What is the URL?

https://nv.ua/ukr/project/redakciyna-politika-nv-50174372.html

53. Is there a person or a group of persons responsible for these guidelines clearly identified?

Yes

53.a. Is that identification visible on the page with the guidelines?

Yes

9.2. Purpose of Guidelines

54. Do the guidelines referred to in the section on Editorial Guidelines set clear expectations for the behaviour for all the contributors, including editorial staff (journalists, editors) and all other contributors?

Yes

If you want to publish additional information, please provide it here.

https://nv.ua/ukr/project/redakciyna-politika-nv-50174372.html

55. Do the guidelines referred to in the section on Editorial Guidelines make clear the structure of editorial responsibility for each stage of the publication process within the organisation?

Yes

9.3. Guidelines and Journalism Principles

56. Do your Editorial Guidelines include requirements for Accuracy (as prescribed in the Preamble) in your output?

Yes

What is the URL?

https://nv.ua/ukr/project/redakciyna-politika-nv-50174372.html

57. Do they include requirements for Independence (as prescribed in the Preamble) of editorial decision making?

Yes

What is the URL?

https://nv.ua/ukr/project/redakciyna-politika-nv-50174372.html

58. Do they include requirements of Fairness (as prescribed in the Preamble) in the practice of journalism?

Yes

What is the URL?

https://nv.ua/ukr/project/redakciyna-politika-nv-50174372.html

59. Do they include requirements for Accountability (as prescribed in the Preamble) in the practice of its journalism?

Yes

What is the URL?

https://nv.ua/ukr/project/redakciyna-politika-nv-50174372.html

9.4. Conflicts of Interest

60. Do your Editorial Guidelines include protections against real, potential, or perceived conflicts of interest?

Yes

If you want to publish additional information, please provide it here.

https://nv.ua/ukr/project/redakciyna-politika-nv-50174372.html

61. Do the guidelines include guidance on how to deal with conflicts related to business?

Yes

If you want to publish additional information, please provide it here.

https://nv.ua/ukr/project/redakciyna-politika-nv-50174372.html

62. Do the guidelines include guidance on how to deal with conflicts related to political interests?

Yes

If you want to publish additional information, please provide it here.

https://nv.ua/ukr/project/redakciyna-politika-nv-50174372.html

63. Do the guidelines include guidance on how to deal with conflicts related to personal interests?

Yes

If you want to publish additional information, please provide it here.

https://nv.ua/ukr/project/redakciyna-politika-nv-50174372.html

64. Does the Media Outlet’s structure protect the editorial processes from any undue influence from within or without?

Yes

Accuracy

10.1. Processes for Ensuring Accuracy

65. Do you have internal rules and a systematic editorial process to ensure the accuracy of your content?

Yes

66. Do you have internal rules and a systematic editorial process to ensure that the Editorial Guidelines are adhered to?

Yes

67. Do you have a verification process for content and the role of editorial oversight?

Yes

If you want to publish additional information, please provide it here.

https://nv.ua/ukr/project/redakciyna-politika-nv-50174372.html

10.2. Process Review

68. Do you have a mechanism for periodic review of the effectiveness of the implementation of your Editorial Guidelines in your editorial processes?

Yes

69. Is your accountability mechanism (internal or external) subject to periodic review?

Yes

10.3. Statistics and External Content

70. Do your Editorial Guidelines require that statistics should be sourced and verified?

Yes

If you want to publish additional information, please provide it here.

https://nv.ua/ukr/project/redakciyna-politika-nv-50174372.html

71. Do your Editorial Guidelines require that external photographs/video/audio content should be sourced and verified?

Yes

If you want to publish additional information, please provide it here.

https://nv.ua/ukr/project/redakciyna-politika-nv-50174372.html

10.4. Identification of Journalists, Agencies

72. Are the Individual Journalists (including external sources) identified, for example through a byline, or recorded in publishing mechanism so that this information can be accessed?

Yes

If you want to publish additional information, please provide it here.

https://nv.ua/ukr/korrespondents.html

73. Is all News Agency material used by the Media Outlet recorded and tracked?

Yes

10.5. Location Reporting

74. Is location reporting identified in your content?

Yes

75. Do your Editorial Guidelines ensure that any constraint on location reporting be explained in the report or in the context of its publication?

Yes

If you want to publish additional information, please provide it here.

If the material contains reporting from a specific location, the audience should be able to understand where the reporting is taking place, unless disclosure of this information creates a security risk. During wartime, security considerations regarding the disclosure of an exact location take priority.

76. Do your Editorial Guidelines require transparency where a location report has been facilitated by an external body?

Yes

If you want to publish additional information, please provide it here.

If access to the location, transportation, accommodation, escort, or other material conditions for preparing the report were arranged or paid for by a military formation, public authority, NGO, company, or other third party, the journalist must inform the editor. This circumstance should be disclosed in the material if it may be relevant to assessing the conditions under which the reporting was conducted or the editorial independence of the coverage.

10.6. Automatically Generated Content

77. Do you publish any content that is automatically generated?

Yes

77.a. Is it in the Editorial Guidelines of your Media Outlet to clearly indicate content generated, wholly or partly, by means of AI or algorithmic processes?

Yes

If you want to publish additional information, please provide it here.

NV publishes content that is automatically generated. This is exchange rate news. For example, https://biz.nv.ua/ukr/finance/kurs-dolara-yak-zminivsya-kurs-valyut-nbu-19-fevralya-novini-ukrajini-50393868.html

10.7. Algorithmic Dissemination and Curation

78. Do you use any algorithms for the dissemination or curation of content?

10.8. Treatment of Explicit Content

79. Do your Editorial Guidelines ensure the ethically appropriate treatment of violent and explicit content?

Yes

80. Do your Editorial Guidelines ensure the ethically appropriate treatment of content which features children or other vulnerable people?

Yes

81. Do your Editorial Guidelines ensure the ethically appropriate handling of live content?

Yes

Responsibility for Content Provided by the General Public

11.1. User Generated Content/Eyewitness News

82. Does your Media Outlet publish any content that comes not from staff or freelancers but from external sources such as readers/viewers?

Yes

82.a. Does your Media Outlet have set structures to ensure the checking of externally sourced material undergoes the same principles as that created entirely by its own journalists?

Yes

11.2. Editorial Guidelines for UGC/Eyewitness News

82.b. Do your Editorial Guidelines also include provisions for externally-submitted material?

Yes

If you want to publish additional information, please provide it here.

Content obtained from users, eyewitnesses, or social media is verified according to the same principles of accuracy, legality, and ethics as NV’s own content.

Before publication, the editorial team, to the extent possible, identifies the original source, the person who provided the material, and the time, place, and circumstances of its creation; checks whether the material has been edited or altered in a way that distorts its meaning; verifies the right to use it; and assesses potential risks to the person who provided the material.

If full verification is not possible, the audience is clearly informed of the limitations of the verification process, or the editorial team refrains from publishing the material.

82.c. Are there Editorial Guidelines dealing with UGC/eyewitness news content?

Yes

82.d. Do they include details on the verification processes to be used for this content?

Yes

82.e. Do they include guidance on the appropriate labelling of such content?

Yes

11.3. Opinion Guidelines

83. Do your Editorial Guidelines also include provision for ensuring comment material is free from defamation?

Yes

If you want to publish additional information, please provide it here.

Comment content must not contain defamatory statements, knowingly false information, or unverified allegations presented as established facts that may harm a person’s honour, dignity, or business reputation. Comments containing such statements may be removed or withheld from publication in accordance with the moderation rules.

84. Do your Editorial Guidelines also include provision for ensuring comment material is free from invasions of privacy?

Yes

If you want to publish additional information, please provide it here.

Comment content must respect the privacy and confidentiality of individuals and must not disclose personal, confidential, or otherwise protected information without a lawful basis. Comments that unlawfully disclose personal data, private correspondence, contact details, or other confidential information may be removed or withheld from publication in accordance with the moderation rules.

85. Do your Editorial Guidelines also include provision for ensuring comment material is free from hate speech?

Yes

If you want to publish additional information, please provide it here.

Comment content must not contain hate speech, incitement to hatred, hostility, discrimination, or violence against individuals or groups based on protected characteristics. Comments containing such content may be removed or withheld from publication in accordance with the moderation rules.

86. Do your Editorial Guidelines also include provision for ensuring comment material is free from harassment?

Yes

If you want to publish additional information, please provide it here.

Comment content must be free from harassment, threats, intimidation, bullying, or other abusive conduct directed at individuals or groups. Comments containing such content may be removed or withheld from publication in accordance with the moderation rules.

87. Is it clear to the public whether your Media Outlet’s moderation of such comment is pre- or post-publication?

Yes

88. Does this policy allow for the removal of offending material?

Yes

Responsibility for Sources

12.1. Anonymity

89. Are there guidelines on the procedures to be followed for granting anonymity to sources?

Yes

90. Are the reasons for granting anonymity made clear to the public?

Yes

If you want to publish additional information, please provide it here.

https://nv.ua/ukr/project/redakciyna-politika-nv-50174372.html

12.2. Privacy Rights

91. Are there guidelines to ensure that the privacy rights and safety of individuals are protected in your journalistic activity?

Yes

12.3. Independence and Sources

92. Are there guidelines to ensure the independence of journalism relative to the sources for content?

Yes

12.4. Diversity of Sources

93. Do the guidelines ensure that a diversity of sources is used in the production of your journalistic content?

Yes

Professionalism for Affiliations

13.1. Sponsored Content Policies

94. Do your Editorial Guidelines have specific policies for distinguishing commercial or sponsored content?

Yes

If you want to publish additional information, please provide it here.

In advertising sales, NV complies with the Law of Ukraine “On Advertising” and other legislative acts governing advertising and sponsorship in the media.

NV does not publish unlabelled advertising. This means that any publication paid for by a third-party legal entity or individual contains a specific disclosure and is clearly separated from editorial content.

The labelling of advertising or sponsored content must be clear and understandable without additional explanation and must clearly distinguish such content from independent editorial material.

13.2. Sponsored Content Indicators

95. Do you publish any sponsored content?

Yes

95.a. Do your Editorial Guidelines require all sponsored content to be clearly labelled or otherwise made clear?

Yes

If you want to publish additional information, please provide it here.

The advertising policy is indicated at the bottom of the website.

95.b. Do your Editorial Guidelines require sponsored content to be labelled and made clearly distinguishable from your own content?

Yes

13.3. Separation of News and Opinion

96. Do your Editorial Guidelines require a clear distinction to be made between news content and opinion content?

Yes

97. Do your Editorial Guidelines require a clear distinction to be made between news content and commercial content?

Yes

98. Do you in editorial practice or in Editorial Guidelines require a clear distinction to be made between news content and content supplied by an external non-journalistic body?

Yes

Internal Accountability

14.1. Dealing with Inaccuracies

99. Do you have a clear process to allow potential errors to be communicated to the Media Outlet by the public?

Yes

99.a. Do you publish that process?

Yes

99.a.i. What is the URL where it can be seen? Or, where is it seen next to each bit of Content?

Under each article, users can report an error by using a keyboard shortcut.

100. Do you have a clear process to allow potential errors to be communicated to the Media Outlet by those with direct involvement in the story?

Yes

100.a. Do you have a clear process for assessing and dealing with the claims?

Yes

If you want to publish additional information, please provide it here.

Complaints regarding possible violations of the NV Editorial Code or journalistic standards may be sent to [email protected].

The complaint should include a link to the material, a description of the alleged violation and, where possible, the facts or documents supporting it.

Receipt of the complaint will be acknowledged no later than within five working days. The complaint will be referred for review to the responsible editor or another senior member of the editorial team who was not directly involved in creating the material in question. The editorial team aims to provide a response within ten working days. If the matter requires additional review, the complainant will be informed accordingly and provided with an estimated response timeframe.

Following the review, NV may correct or supplement the material, publish a clarification, correction or response, or provide a reasoned refusal to uphold the complaint. The decision may be reviewed again by the Editor-in-Chief of the NV project.

101. Is there a systematic editorial structure in the Media Outlet to ensure that any inaccuracies in its content are corrected in a timely and transparent manner?

Yes

14.2. Publishing Corrections

102. Does your Media Outlet guarantee the publication of the correction of all significant inaccuracies and errors in a similar place and manner as the original version, such as the same URL or in similar time and format of broadcast?

Yes

14.3. Contact and Process for Complaints

103. Does your organisation have a designated contact in the event of complaints about potential breaches of its journalism principles or Editorial Guidelines?

Yes

104. Does your organisation have a designated process for the public to open a dialogue with you regarding potential breaches of its journalism principles or Editorial Guidelines? (These may follow the Uniform Correction or Clarification act adopted by most U.S. States.)

Yes

104.a. Is that information clearly available?

Yes

104.a.i. What is the URL of where this information is available? If it is not on a single page, describe where people can find it.

https://nv.ua/ukr/project/redakciyna-politika-nv-50174372.html

14.4. Internal Process for Complaints

105. Are your staff (Employees and Freelance) aware of the process that must be followed in the event of such complaints?

Yes

106. Are they aware that all such complaints must be brought to the attention of a senior member of staff (of organisations large enough to have a staff) not directly connected with the creation of the story?

Yes

107. Is your Media Outlet committed to the resolution of any such complaints in a fair, reasonable and timely manner?

Yes

14.5. Independence of Ombudsperson

108. Does the Media Outlet have an Ombudsperson?

External Accountability

15.1. External Oversight

109. Have you committed to a system or systems of external accountability for your editorial content?

Yes

109.a. What are they?

NV is registered as a media entity in Ukraine and is subject to regulatory oversight by the National Council of Television and Radio Broadcasting of Ukraine. In addition, NV has undergone external certification by IMPERIUM CERT, providing an additional mechanism of external accountability and compliance with applicable standards.

15.2. Compliance with External Accountability

110. Is your Media Outlet committed to comply with any directions or guidance issued by the external accountability body to which you subscribe?

Yes

15.3. Absence of external oversight

111. Is your Media Outlet subject to an external regulatory mechanism for content that you find it not possible to comply with?

15.4. Contact Details of External Accountability Bodies

112. Are the mechanisms for the public to complain about breaches of your Editorial Guidelines to an external body publicly available?

Yes

112.a. What is the link?

https://webportal.nrada.gov.ua/ https://imcert.ua/uk

15.5. Other Associations

113. Do you belong to any other bodies that require members to adhere to published guidelines, standards or norms to maintain status in that organisation?

URL

In the second stage of the study, the media that passed the first stage were analyzed according to the following criteria: standards of balance, credibility and separation of facts from comments, the presence of jeansa, sexism and hate speech, as well as transparency, in other words the availability of contacts, editorial policies, financial transparency.

Professionalism in the Media Outlet

16.1. Recruitment and Training

114. Do you have guidelines for the recruitment and training of editorial staff?

Yes

114.a. Do those guidelines contain a diversity policy?

Yes

114.b. Do those guidelines cover staff welfare?

Yes

If you want to publish additional information, please provide it here.

The media purchases insurance for all of its staff.

114.c. Are they publicly available?

Yes

114.c.i. What is the URL?

https://nv.ua/ukr/project/redakciyna-politika-nv-50174372.html

16.2. Working Conditions, Contract Policy and Labour Relations

115. Do the regulations and guidelines for the employment of staff and engagement of contract journalists protect their editorial independence?

Yes

116. Are your employees (including freelance) covered by legal contracts and insurance?

Yes

117. Does your staff have the freedom to organise?

Yes

118. Do you have an existing structure for social dialogue including a collective bargaining arrangement with appropriate trade unions?

119. Are there guidelines for contracts of engagement with freelance journalists?

Yes

119.a. Do these guidelines ensure the ability of freelancers to adhere to the editorial principles?

Yes

16.3. Staff Welfare

120. Does your Media Outlet's rules and procedures protect against discrimination in the workplace?

Yes

121. Does your Media Outlet's rules and procedures support equality of opportunity?

Yes

122. Does your Media Outlet have a safety at work policy, which includes specific protection for journalists working in hostile environments?

Yes

If you want to publish additional information, please provide it here.

The media renovated a basement that can be used as a shelter for journalists working in the office. Journalists are also exempt from physically coming to work, if they do not feel safe.

123. Does your Media Outlet have guidelines to support editorial staff who have been exposed to material of a sensitive or upsetting nature?

Yes

124. Does your Media Outlet have guidelines to support editorial staff who suffered physical or psychological harm in the course of their work?

Yes

Training

17.1. Training in Editorial Guidelines

125. Does your Media Outlet have a training programme for editorial staff that includes sections on the Editorial Guidelines and other legal and ethical issues?

Yes

126. Is there refresher training available for significant changes in the law or guidelines?

Yes

127. Does your staff have expert advice available for consultation when dealing with legal and compliance issues?

Yes

Publication of Self-Assessment

18.1. General Public

128. Does your Media Outlet publish your answers to this self-assessment based on the JTI Standard?

Yes

128.a. Is it available to readers?

Yes

The JTI Transparency Report is published here:

https://journalismtrustinitiative.org/community/?org_id=1116

18.2. Machine-readability

129. Does your Media Outlet publish your answers in a machine-readable format?

Yes

129.a. What is the URL?

https://journalismtrustinitiative.org/community/?org_id=1116

JTI REPORT

Section A: Identity and Transparency

Section B: Professionalism and Accountability