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Transparency Report
Section A: Identity and Transparency
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1.1. Legal Entity Name
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1. What is the Legal Entity Name?話鹿學人有限公司 PLAIN LAW MEDIA LTD.
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1.2. Contact Details and Identifiers
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ADDRESS LINE 1中山區林森北路107巷10號1樓
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POST CODE104007
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CITY臺北市
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COUNTRYTaiwan
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3. What is the general telephone number for the Legal Entity?02-25624664
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4. What is the email address for the Legal Entity?
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5. Is the Legal Entity required to have a Tax ID, a Registration ID, a DUNS number and/or other identifiers?Yes
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5.a. What are these IDs for the Legal Entity?82953510
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6. Are there any other governmental or other identifiers that a certification body could use to verify the identity of the Legal Entity?Yes
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6.a. What are those identifiers?經濟部商工登記公示資料查詢
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1.3. Description of Media Outlet
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7. What Brand Name(s), titles, publication names, etc. do you use to publish Content?法律白話文運動（網站、FB、IG、X、Tiktok、YouTube）
法客電台（Podcast）
珞亦不絕（Instagram）
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1.4. Distribution Channels and URLs
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8. Does the Media Outlet publish on any URLs?Yes
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8.a. On what URLs do you publish?
- https://plainlaw.me/
- https://www.youtube.com/@plainlaw_me
- https://open.spotify.com/show/2JJ9ignOhpcR5UUeAEcoGI
- https://podcast.kkbox.com/tw/channel/Xa1MG6utgfA-Qk5_7m
- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/%E6%B3%95%E5%AE%A2%E9%9B%BB%E5%8F%B0-by-%E6%B3%95%E5%BE%8B%E7%99%BD%E8%A9%B1%E6%96%87%E9%81%8B%E5%8B%95-plain-law-movement/id1482463498
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9. Does the Media Outlet publish any content on any social media?Yes
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9.a. What are the social media URLs, handles, addresses or names that you use to publish?
- https://www.facebook.com/plainlaw.me
- https://www.instagram.com/plainlaw.me/
- https://twitter.com/plainlaw_me
- https://www.youtube.com/@plainlaw_me
- https://open.spotify.com/show/2JJ9ignOhpcR5UUeAEcoGI?si=b1507a8d4b354a08
- https://plainlaw.me/rss.xml
- https://www.threads.net/@plainlaw.me?hl=zh-tw
- https://www.tiktok.com/@plainlaw.me
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10. Does the Media Outlet publish any content by broadcasting and/or streaming?No
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1.5. Safety Concerns
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11. Do the Media Outlet's Editorial Guidelines state that the safety of all journalists shall be treated as a primary concern?Yes
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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?No
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1.6. Location
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13. Is the physical address of the Legal Entity different from the postal address according to question no. 2?No
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14. Do you have a safety-related reason for not providing it?No
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1.7. Founding Date
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15. What is the founding date of the Legal Entity?2019-08-01
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If you want to publish additional information on the founding history, please provide it here.2014 年 3 月成立 Facebook 專頁，2019 年成立Podcast《法客電台》
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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)?Yes
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16.a. Provide a history of previous/former Legal Entities and their founding dates.2014 年 3 月成立 Facebook 專頁
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2.1. Editorial Mission Statement
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17. Does your Media Outlet have an editorial mission statement, or stated set of principles or editorial values?Yes
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17.a. Provide that statement here法律白話文運動的使命，就是希望能肩負起法律人與社會大眾溝通的承擔，不只告訴大家如何思考法律議題，更希望能讓社會大眾感受到自己的聲音與主張被聽見，也被法律尊重。
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18. Is that statement posted online?Yes
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18.a. What is the URL where it is published?https://plainlaw.me/about
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3.1. Public Service Media Mission, Governance and Independence
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19. Is the Media Outlet a Public Service Media?No
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4.1. Privately held
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20. Is the Media Outlet or the Legal Entity privately owned?Yes
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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?有限公司
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4.2. State or Publicly owned
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21. Is the Media Outlet or the Legal Entity owned by the state, a unit of the government or any other public entity?No
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4.3. Publicly Traded Company
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22. Is the Media Outlet or the Legal Entity publicly traded?No
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4.4. Other
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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?No
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5.1. Names of Owners and Board Members
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24. What are the names of all direct, indirect or beneficial owners?楊貴智
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25. Are the names of the owners in the previous question available online?Yes
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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?如下方網址失效，請透過《經濟部商工登記公示資料查詢服務》查詢「話鹿學人有限公司」
https://findbiz.nat.gov.tw/fts/query/QueryBar/queryInit.do?banNo=82953510 -
26. What are the names of the members of supervisory boards?有限公司無監事會。
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27. Are the names of the members of the supervisory board members in the previous question available online?No
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28. Are the listed owners also founders or owners of other companies?Yes
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28.a. State here the names and main activities of those companies.貴智法律事務所，律師業務
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28.b. What are the business sectors for the companies listed in the previous question?法律服務業
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29. Are any of the owners active members of a political party or movement or candidates in a political election or current office holders?No
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5.2. Contact Details of Direct and Indirect Owners
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30. What is the contact information for all direct and indirect owners?
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31. Is the contact information in the previous question available online?Yes
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31.a. What is the URL with the contact information from the previous question?https://plainlaw.me/about
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32. What is the contact information for the members of the board of directors?
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33. Is the contact information in the previous question available online?Yes
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33.a. What is the URL with the contact information from the previous question?https://plainlaw.me/about
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5.3. Names of Shareholders
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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.)楊貴智
徐書磊
劉珞亦
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5.4. Percentage of Shareholdings
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35. List the shareholders and the percentage of the holdings.不便公開
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5.5. Exception for Member-owned Media Outlets
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36. Is the Media Outlet member-owned?Yes
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36.a. List the names and contact information for the Board of Directors or whatever form of leadership the Media Outlet has.
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6.1. Management Directory
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37. What are the names, positions, and contact details of all members of management for the Media Outlet?
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6.2. Location of Branches and Offices
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38. What is the physical address, phone number and email address of the headquarters of the Media Outlet?
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39. Does the Media Outlet have other main branches and offices?No
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40. Do you have a safety-related reason for not providing it?No
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7.1. Social Media
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41. Does the Media Outlet have social media accounts for the public to use to make queries or respond to Content?Yes
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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/plainlaw.me
- https://www.instagram.com/plainlaw.me/
- https://twitter.com/plainlaw_me
- https://www.youtube.com/@plainlaw_me
- https://open.spotify.com/show/2JJ9ignOhpcR5UUeAEcoGI?si=b1507a8d4b354a08
- https://plainlaw.me/rss.xml
- https://www.threads.net/@plainlaw.me?hl=zh-tw
- https://www.tiktok.com/@plainlaw.me
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7.2. Newsroom Contact Details
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42. Does the Media Outlet have a person responsible for dealing with communication from the public regarding the Content?Yes
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43. Is the method for contacting that person or others at the Media Outlet clearly visible to the public?Yes
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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.?電子信箱、社群媒體、節目上回覆
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7.3. Customer Service Contact Details
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45. Does the Media Outlet have a department or a single person who is responsible for customer service?Yes
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45.a. What are the contact details, including telephone numbers, email addresses, correspondence addresses, for customer service or the equivalent within the Media Outlet?
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8.1. Sources of Revenue
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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.費用、廣告、補助、活動、訂閱、銷售
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47. Is the Media Outlet required to make financial disclosures?No
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50. Is there any reason for safety and security that you have given incomplete data in this section?Yes
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50.a. What is the reason?不便公開考量基於防範政治或經濟報復的風險。某些收入來源的公開可能會使媒體機構遭受特定政府、企業或利益團體的壓力，進而影響其營運或報導自由。
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8.2. Data collection disclosure
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51. Does your Media Outlet process any personal information from online visitors on its own or with third parties?Yes
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51.a. What information is processed?Google Analytics, Facebook
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51.b. What is the purpose for gathering that information?瀏覽網頁、瀏覽時間、裝置等
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51.c. By what methods is the information processed?Google Analytics 及 Facebook 之後台，或授權廣告業者瀏覽相關數據之權限
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Section B: Professionalism and Accountability
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9.1 Editorial Guidelines
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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
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52.a. Are they made available to the public in a readily accessible form?Yes
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52.a.i. What is the URL?https://plainlaw.me/about
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53. Is there a person or a group of persons responsible for these guidelines clearly identified?Yes
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53.a. Is that identification visible on the page with the guidelines?Yes
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53.a.i. Why not?編輯指南未公開
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If you want to publish additional information, please provide it here.編輯獨立宣言發布於https://plainlaw.me/about 並於該頁面提供詳細的編輯公約以及申訴表單連結，以Notion形式發布 https://plainlaw.notion.site/29fe05f9a71680859d69d7e98087dca5 https://plainlaw.notion.site/29fe05f9a716808a9bdac517a0af3219
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9.2. Purpose of Guidelines
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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
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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?No
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9.3. Guidelines and Journalism Principles
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56. Do your Editorial Guidelines include requirements for Accuracy (as prescribed in the Preamble) in your output?Yes
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What is the URL?https://plainlaw.me/about
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57. Do they include requirements for Independence (as prescribed in the Preamble) of editorial decision making?Yes
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What is the URL?https://plainlaw.me/about
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58. Do they include requirements of Fairness (as prescribed in the Preamble) in the practice of journalism?Yes
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What is the URL?https://plainlaw.me/about
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59. Do they include requirements for Accountability (as prescribed in the Preamble) in the practice of its journalism?Yes
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What is the URL?https://plainlaw.me/about
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9.4. Conflicts of Interest
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60. Do your Editorial Guidelines include protections against real, potential, or perceived conflicts of interest?Yes
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61. Do the guidelines include guidance on how to deal with conflicts related to business?Yes
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If you want to publish additional information, please provide it here.https://plainlaw.me/about
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62. Do the guidelines include guidance on how to deal with conflicts related to political interests?Yes
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If you want to publish additional information, please provide it here.https://plainlaw.me/about
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63. Do the guidelines include guidance on how to deal with conflicts related to personal interests?Yes
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If you want to publish additional information, please provide it here.https://plainlaw.me/about
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64. Does the Media Outlet’s structure protect the editorial processes from any undue influence from within or without?Yes
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If you want to publish additional information, please provide it here.https://plainlaw.me/about
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10.1. Processes for Ensuring Accuracy
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65. Do you have internal rules and a systematic editorial process to ensure the accuracy of your content?Yes
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66. Do you have internal rules and a systematic editorial process to ensure that the Editorial Guidelines are adhered to?Yes
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67. Do you have a verification process for content and the role of editorial oversight?Yes
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10.2. Process Review
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68. Do you have a mechanism for periodic review of the effectiveness of the implementation of your Editorial Guidelines in your editorial processes?Yes
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69. Is your accountability mechanism (internal or external) subject to periodic review?Yes
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10.3. Statistics and External Content
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70. Do your Editorial Guidelines require that statistics should be sourced and verified?Yes
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71. Do your Editorial Guidelines require that external photographs/video/audio content should be sourced and verified?Yes
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10.4. Identification of Journalists, Agencies
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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
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73. Is all News Agency material used by the Media Outlet recorded and tracked?N/A
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10.5. Location Reporting
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74. Is location reporting identified in your content?Yes
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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
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76. Do your Editorial Guidelines require transparency where a location report has been facilitated by an external body?Yes
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10.6. Automatically Generated Content
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77. Do you publish any content that is automatically generated?Yes
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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
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10.7. Algorithmic Dissemination and Curation
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78. Do you use any algorithms for the dissemination or curation of content?Yes
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78.a. Do you clearly indicate your policy on your use of algorithms for the dissemination and curation of news content?Yes
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78.b. Does the Media Outlet adhere to best practice requirements from a regulatory or advisory body?N/A
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10.8. Treatment of Explicit Content
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79. Do your Editorial Guidelines ensure the ethically appropriate treatment of violent and explicit content?Yes
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80. Do your Editorial Guidelines ensure the ethically appropriate treatment of content which features children or other vulnerable people?Yes
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81. Do your Editorial Guidelines ensure the ethically appropriate handling of live content?Yes
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11.1. User Generated Content/Eyewitness News
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82. Does your Media Outlet publish any content that comes not from staff or freelancers but from external sources such as readers/viewers?No
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11.2. Editorial Guidelines for UGC/Eyewitness News
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11.3. Opinion Guidelines
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83. Do your Editorial Guidelines also include provision for ensuring comment material is free from defamation?Yes
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84. Do your Editorial Guidelines also include provision for ensuring comment material is free from invasions of privacy?Yes
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85. Do your Editorial Guidelines also include provision for ensuring comment material is free from hate speech?Yes
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86. Do your Editorial Guidelines also include provision for ensuring comment material is free from harassment?Yes
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87. Is it clear to the public whether your Media Outlet’s moderation of such comment is pre- or post-publication?Yes
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88. Does this policy allow for the removal of offending material?Yes
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12.1. Anonymity
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89. Are there guidelines on the procedures to be followed for granting anonymity to sources?No
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90. Are the reasons for granting anonymity made clear to the public?Yes
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12.2. Privacy Rights
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91. Are there guidelines to ensure that the privacy rights and safety of individuals are protected in your journalistic activity?Yes
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12.3. Independence and Sources
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92. Are there guidelines to ensure the independence of journalism relative to the sources for content?Yes
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12.4. Diversity of Sources
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93. Do the guidelines ensure that a diversity of sources is used in the production of your journalistic content?Yes
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13.1. Sponsored Content Policies
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94. Do your Editorial Guidelines have specific policies for distinguishing commercial or sponsored content?Yes
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13.2. Sponsored Content Indicators
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95. Do you publish any sponsored content?Yes
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95.a. Do your Editorial Guidelines require all sponsored content to be clearly labelled or otherwise made clear?Yes
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95.b. Do your Editorial Guidelines require sponsored content to be labelled and made clearly distinguishable from your own content?Yes
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13.3. Separation of News and Opinion
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96. Do your Editorial Guidelines require a clear distinction to be made between news content and opinion content?Yes
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97. Do your Editorial Guidelines require a clear distinction to be made between news content and commercial content?Yes
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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
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14.1. Dealing with Inaccuracies
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99. Do you have a clear process to allow potential errors to be communicated to the Media Outlet by the public?Yes
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99.a. Do you publish that process?Yes
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99.a.i. What is the URL where it can be seen? Or, where is it seen next to each bit of Content?《內容申訴處理辦法》
https://www.notion.so/plainlaw/29fe05f9a7168022b543c566dc849adc -
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
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100.a. Do you have a clear process for assessing and dealing with the claims?Yes
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If you want to publish additional information, please provide it here.閱聽人可以在每則新聞報導下方留言，或透過社群媒體平台、電子郵件、Podcast留言看板或EMAIL方式聯繫我們。閱聽人也可以利用設置申訴表單。
https://plainlaw.notion.site/29fe05f9a716808a9bdac517a0af3219?pvs=105
依據《內容申訴處理辦法》：
(1) 任何人若發現本站內容有錯誤、爭議或違反新聞倫理之處，皆可透過網站所設通報表單或電子郵件主動提出通報。如果任何人利用社群平台留言或Podcast功能提出疑問，經本站發現後，本站應主動處理。
(2) 內容長若發現內容有誤，應以開放的態度儘速通知作者進行更正或更新。如為重大內容爭議，足以影響本站社會信任、專業公信力或涉及嚴重新聞倫理問題時，內容長應啟動專案性倫理評議委員會。
(3) 若錯誤內容涉及誹謗、名譽損害或其他法律問題，內容長應尋求法律諮詢。
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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
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14.2. Publishing Corrections
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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
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14.3. Contact and Process for Complaints
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103. Does your organisation have a designated contact in the event of complaints about potential breaches of its journalism principles or Editorial Guidelines?Yes
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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
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104.a. Is that information clearly available?Yes
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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.設有申訴表單
https://plainlaw.notion.site/29fe05f9a716808a9bdac517a0af3219?pvs=105
以及《內容申訴處理辦法》
https://www.notion.so/plainlaw/29fe05f9a7168022b543c566dc849adc
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14.4. Internal Process for Complaints
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105. Are your staff (Employees and Freelance) aware of the process that must be followed in the event of such complaints?Yes
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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
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107. Is your Media Outlet committed to the resolution of any such complaints in a fair, reasonable and timely manner?Yes
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14.5. Independence of Ombudsperson
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108. Does the Media Outlet have an Ombudsperson?N/A
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14.6. Powers of Ombudsperson
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15.1. External Oversight
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109. Have you committed to a system or systems of external accountability for your editorial content?Yes
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15.2. Compliance with External Accountability
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110. Is your Media Outlet committed to comply with any directions or guidance issued by the external accountability body to which you subscribe?Yes
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15.3. Absence of external oversight
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15.4. Contact Details of External Accountability Bodies
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112. Are the mechanisms for the public to complain about breaches of your Editorial Guidelines to an external body publicly available?No
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15.5. Other Associations
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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?No
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16.1. Recruitment and Training
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114. Do you have guidelines for the recruitment and training of editorial staff?Yes
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114.a. Do those guidelines contain a diversity policy?Yes
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114.b. Do those guidelines cover staff welfare?Yes
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114.c. Are they publicly available?Yes
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114.c.i. What is the URL?https://plainlaw.notion.site/29fe05f9a71680bc8732c871463101f4?pvs=74
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16.2. Working Conditions, Contract Policy and Labour Relations
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115. Do the regulations and guidelines for the employment of staff and engagement of contract journalists protect their editorial independence?Yes
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116. Are your employees (including freelance) covered by legal contracts and insurance?Yes
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117. Does your staff have the freedom to organise?Yes
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118. Do you have an existing structure for social dialogue including a collective bargaining arrangement with appropriate trade unions?N/A
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119. Are there guidelines for contracts of engagement with freelance journalists?Yes
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119.a. Do these guidelines ensure the ability of freelancers to adhere to the editorial principles?Yes
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16.3. Staff Welfare
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120. Does your Media Outlet's rules and procedures protect against discrimination in the workplace?Yes
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121. Does your Media Outlet's rules and procedures support equality of opportunity?N/A
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122. Does your Media Outlet have a safety at work policy, which includes specific protection for journalists working in hostile environments?N/A
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123. Does your Media Outlet have guidelines to support editorial staff who have been exposed to material of a sensitive or upsetting nature?Yes
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124. Does your Media Outlet have guidelines to support editorial staff who suffered physical or psychological harm in the course of their work?Yes
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17.1. Training in Editorial Guidelines
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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
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126. Is there refresher training available for significant changes in the law or guidelines?Yes
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127. Does your staff have expert advice available for consultation when dealing with legal and compliance issues?Yes
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18.1. General Public
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128. Does your Media Outlet publish your answers to this self-assessment based on the JTI Standard?Yes
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128.a. Is it available to readers?Yes
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18.2. Machine-readability
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129. Does your Media Outlet publish your answers in a machine-readable format?Yes
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129.a. What is the URL?https://www.jti-app.com/report/dN0Y8Rr9wXLDQr6W
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