- The Press shall eschew publication of inaccurate, baseless, graceless, misleading or distorted material. All sides of the core issue or subject should be reported. Unjustified rumours and surmises should not be set forth as facts.
- It is incumbent for newspapers to play a positive role in response to rumours affecting the credibility of financial institutions having public interface.
- While it is the duty of the press to expose the wrong doings that come to their notice, such reports need to be backed by irrefutable facts and evidences.
- Newspaper should bear in mind that their duty is to collect the news and place it in perspective but not to create news.
- Whenever any news is published on the basis of an FIR and is critical of the reputation of any person or body, the newspaper/journals must clearly state in the same news report that the report was only on the basis of the FIR and that veracity of the version of the FIR has got to be decided by the Court. The newspaper should also publish the version of the affected party.
- The newspaper should not mis-construe or misquote the statements given by leader. The statements quoted in editorial should project the true spirit of what is being tried to be conveyed by them.
- Articles which analyse and interpret the history on the basis of contemporaneous events cannot be said to be unethical.
- When a newspaper is following a story on a person and carries series of report on the issue associated with him, it ought to publish the news of his exoneration with same prominence as that of series of previous reports.
- The newspaper is liable for damaging effects of publishing alarming/sensational heading of news story based on Study having no established credentials.
- Gossip reaches a localized few, a newspaper report reaches lakhs and therefore a more onerous responsibility devolves on the Press towards the society.
- Media must overcome the tendency of trivialization of information and build credibility Media must overcome the tendency of trivialization of information and build credibility
- Freedom of speech does not give right to newspapers to write about an institution or individual untrue facts even in a lighter note.
- An error attributing historically incorrect remarks of grave nature to an individual(s) shall not be made.
- The newspaper(s) should not indulge in act aiding and facilitating gaming by publishing Mataka, Gaming Charts and results thereof in newspaper.
- A news which has international ramification should not be published in casual manner.
- Newspaper(s) while covering a news refer to the Comptroller and Auditor General of India or any other report shall ensure that the facts and figures in news report should be accurate and not imaginary.
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