Disclaimer & Code of Ethics in Citizen Journalism

The Copenhagen Voice invites all to join our social media community news reporting team.
Participatory journalism from the root voice of the people.

We encourage people to upload their stories, photos, comments, videos in hopes to bring a new angle to the news in Copenhagen Denmark - from the voice of the people.

We encourage you to share your opinions, feelings, and thoughts, and we recommend this as a fine format when covering topics, as long as you make clear which information is fact or opinion when uploading content.

Some helpful tips in reporting community news:

1. Accuracy - Check your facts before you publish.

2. Differentiate between facts and opinions.

3. Do not plagiarise and do link to all references.

4. Don't make digital modifications that change the meaning or context of pictures or video footage.

5. Don't submit "posed" pictures as true news.

6. Don't put yourself in danger in order to get that "great" story or picture.

7. Be honest.

8. Make personal contact with the person(s) you are writing about and link to their online material (eg blog) if they have any.

9. Transparency - Be sure to disclose any personal relationship you may have to the story you publish.

10. Be aware of the dangers of discrimination being furthered by the media, and do the utmost to avoid facilitating such discrimination based on, among other things, race, sex, sexual orientation, language, religion, political or other opinions, and national or social origins.

11. Please do the utmost to rectify any published information which is found to be harmfully inaccurate.

12. Legal responsibility for acts of plagiarism or unauthorized use of material lies entirely with the "contributor" on our site - Legal responsibility for defamation in articles lie entirely with the "contributor".