Editorial Guidance from the Managing Editor Another Fact That Needs To Be Right: A Person's Pronouns by Mark Memmott November 26, 2019 • A pronoun is a biographical detail that has to be correct. Getting it wrong not only means we've made a mistake, it means we may have hurt the person we interviewed.
Editorial Guidance from the Managing Editor Guidance Reminder: About DACA And 'Dreamers' by Mark Memmott November 12, 2019 • We need to be careful when we cite figures and refer to those in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.
Editorial Guidance from the Managing Editor Guidance: On Covering The 'Whistleblower' If A Name Is Revealed by Mark Memmott November 4, 2019 • The decision on what, if anything, to say will be made by Nancy Barnes (with input, obviously, from senior editors).
Editorial Guidance from the Managing Editor Guidance: Keep Adding 'According To' Or Other Attribution To al-Baghdadi Reports by Mark Memmott October 28, 2019 • Also: As stories such as this evolve, it is tempting to refer to details that turn out to be wrong as having been "fake news." That's a term we should not use.
Editorial Guidance from the Managing Editor This Is No Mistake: There's Good News About Corrections by Mark Memmott October 2, 2019 • We reached our goal (on reducing mistakes) in September.
Editorial Guidance from the Managing Editor Guidance: On The Word 'Transcript' by Mark Memmott September 25, 2019 • Other ways to refer to the account of the conversation President Trump had with the president of Ukraine include "an account of the call" or "a memorandum."
Editorial Guidance from the Managing Editor Guidance: The Capital Of Ukraine Is Spelled 'Kyiv' by Mark Memmott September 23, 2019 • It's not "Kiev."
Editorial Guidance from the Managing Editor Guidance Reminder: Use Names Of Mass Shooting Suspects Sparingly by Mark Memmott August 8, 2019 • We can be respectful of the feelings of those in the audience who find it disturbing to hear the name over and over, and respectful of those who believe repeating the name glorifies a horrible person.
Editorial Guidance from the Managing Editor Guidance: More About The Word 'Manifesto' by Mark Memmott August 5, 2019 • We should continue to carefully consider how we use the word in order not to diminish its meaning.
Editorial Guidance from the Managing Editor Guidance: Embargoed Reports Must Be Flagged In DACS Lines by Mark Memmott July 26, 2019 • Instructions on how to enter information about exclusives that have embargo times.
Editorial Guidance from the Managing Editor Guidance: When Victims Are Minors, They Are Not 'Women' And 'Men' by Mark Memmott July 12, 2019 • Also, when someone is accused of assaulting both minors and adults, be sure to use phrases such as "women and girls" or "men and boys."
Editorial Guidance from the Managing Editor Guidance Reminder: The Agency Is 'Customs And Border Protection' by Mark Memmott July 9, 2019 • There is a "U.S. Border Patrol" within it and there are border patrol agents, but the name of the agency ends with "Protection," not "Patrol."
Editorial Guidance from the Managing Editor Guidance Reminder For The 4th: Beware Of Videos And Other Things That Go Viral by Mark Memmott July 3, 2019 • As we've said before, we don't necessarily have to report about them "until we have more to say than that they exist."
Editorial Guidance from the Managing Editor Reminder: A Child Is Not 'Illegitimate' by Mark Memmott June 17, 2019 • As an NPR public editor once observed, that's a "pejorative" birth label.
Editorial Guidance from the Managing Editor Guidance & Reminder: No Bumper Stickers, No Signs, No Advocating by Mark Memmott May 28, 2019 • We want to be seen as "rigorous and impartial pursuers of truth." That's why we work hard to challenge our own perspectives and to avoid doing things that raise questions about our impartiality.
Editorial Guidance from the Managing Editor Guidance: About Historical References To Citizenship Questions On The Census by Mark Memmott May 17, 2019 • Hansi Lo Wang or Luis Clemens should be consulted on all stories that look at the debate.
Editorial Guidance from the Managing Editor Guidance: On Naming Both Defendants In The STEM School Shooting by Mark Memmott May 17, 2019 • We can use the names, though as we have said before we do not need to say them often.
Editorial Guidance from the Managing Editor Guidance Reminder: On Abortion Procedures, Terminology & Rights by Mark Memmott May 15, 2019 • We need to be precise, accurate and neutral.
Editorial Guidance from the Managing Editor Guidance: On References To Attitudes About Vaccines by Joe Neel , Mark Memmott May 13, 2019 • In particular, avoid the use of the terms "anti-vax" and "anti-vaxxer." It's important to stick to the science — and to use neutral language in describing peoples' positions.
Editorial Guidance from the Managing Editor Reminder: All Requests To Use NPR Material Must Go Through 'Permissions' by Mark Memmott April 26, 2019 • This applies to materials we have broadcast and published, and to such things as raw tape and unpublished photos that have not been included in our reports.
Editorial Guidance from the Managing Editor Guidance: Today's Foul Language by Mark Memmott April 19, 2019 • In a tweet this morning, the president uses the word "bullshit" to characterize some of the "statements made in the 'Report' about me."
Editorial Guidance from the Managing Editor On References In The Mueller Report To Evidence Of Lying by Mark Memmott April 19, 2019 • When reporting about this, frame it as "evidence," not proof, that the aides to the president were "asked to lie." And attribute the evidence to Mueller's investigation.