Guidance - ABC Editorial Policies (original) (raw)
This guidance note provides general advice across a range of areas to help you make your ABC content accessible to as many people as possible.
This note provides specific guidance on achieving accuracy for all fact-based content, including news and current affairs, documentaries, commentary, interviews, reviews, magazine-style and quiz programs, online data and graphs.
Chequebook Journalism / Paying for Interviews
This Guidance Note covers the practice of paying talent for the right (often exclusive) to publish or broadcast topical or newsworthy information and includes payment for interviews, information, and access to places or people that would otherwise…
This guidance note aims to assist staff involved in setting up and running competitions for audiences on ABC outlets, or through ABC Commercial.
This Guidance Note relates to correcting significant material errors in content that the ABC has broadcast or published on platforms and through services operated by the ABC, or on platforms and through services operated by third parties (e.g.
This Guidance Note relates to content credits, including information about crediting external funding sources and co-production partners.
Dealing with trauma and survivors of trauma
This Guidance Note is provided to assist staff involved in the reporting, discussion or depiction of trauma. It includes advice on dealing with victims, survivors, relatives of victims and witnesses of crime, accidents and natural disasters.
This Guidance Note is provided to assist staff involved in the reporting or discussion of domestic or family violence. It relates to coverage of domestic violence and abuse, including coercive control in factual ABC content.
This Guidance Note provides advice for coverage of Federal, State and Territory elections, including legal obligations, fair and balanced coverage, use of social media and free-time party election broadcasts.
External work and editorial conflicts
This note provides specific guidance on the editorial impact of paid and unpaid external work carried out by anyone editorially involved in creating content for the ABC.
This Guidance Note applies to ABC produced and commissioned factual drama in which a creative process of interpreting and fictionalising real people and contemporary or historical events has occurred.
The focus of this Guidance Note is on the provision of a fair opportunity to respond prior to disclosure of allegations and includes information for when allegations are made during live content.
Free or discounted products, services or facilities
This guidance note relates to free or discounted products, services or facilities that are offered to, or sought by, the ABC or its co-production partners, specifically to support the creation of content.
This guidance aims to help content makers think through the issues relating to Harm and offence and make informed decisions that uphold the standards while still enabling us to broadcast and publish risky and innovative content consistent with our…
Hate Speech, Terrorism & Mass Killings
This guidance addresses three separate but related phenomena – racist, discriminatory and hate speech; terror attacks; and non-political mass killings. It applies to factual content.
Impartiality is one of the most fundamental elements of content-making at the ABC.
This Guidance Note relates to a range of editorial issues that arise in when we conduct interviews for news, current affairs, topical and factual content, including live interviewing, pre-recorded standalone interviews or interviews for inclusion in…
Managing External Funding in Broadcast Television
This Guidance Note relates to the management of external funding accepted by the ABC for internal content and for content co-produced with the independent production sector for broadcast on ABC Television.
Moderating User Generated Content
This guidance note applies to the moderation of user generated content appearing on ABC websites and on official ABC interactive services established on third-party websites, such as external social media sites (Facebook, YouTube etc).
Operating Official ABC Social Media Accounts
This Guidance Note must be read by anyone authorised to operate or administer an official ABC social media account. It explains the rules around establishing official sites on third party platforms, operational procedures and security.
Personal Use of Social Media Guidelines
The purpose of these Guidelines is to examine those areas where your personal use of social media may intersect with your professional life and to provide some information and direction on managing the risks that may arise.
This guidance note sets out the principles that govern decisions to remove ABC online content, whether on an ABC platform or a third party platform. It covers all removal decisions other than those which are routine operational matters.
This Guidance Note relates to coverage of suicide and self-harm in all ABC content, both fictional and factual – whether reporting real instances or portraying fictional depictions of suicide, apparent or attempted suicide, assisted suicide…
This guidance note outlines the appropriate use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools in ABC content, including commissioned and acquired content.