Letter from the Editor
KhargharNews.in is the only dedicated community news portal covering the locality of Kharghar. A sister concern of LocalPress.in, a 5-year-old local news portal of Navi Mumbai, KhargharNews publishes is not just a typical news website.
You love Kharghar, and everything that transpires in the locality, right?
So, we will be sharing local news from Kharghar, as well as everything else that’s going on in the rest of this wonderful, beautiful, crazy locality of Navi Mumbai. We will be sharing with you what it’s like to live, eat, drink, party and grow together in this best locality of the city of the 21st Century.
To be frank, we will be bringing you the latest breaking news from Kharghar, but that is only part of it. We will be showcasing all the positive aspects of living in Kharghar.
But we won’t patronise you – when something bad happens in the locality, we know you want to know about it too.
Kharghar can be an amazing place and an awful place to live at the same time, and while we wish to cherish the good aspects, we also want to highlight the bad ones too.
So, we will be publishing general news from Kharghar, along with ample features on the lifestyle and culture of the community of Kharghar. We will be writing about the best places to go for a bite to eat with your family and friends, new shops, bars, restaurants and businesses that are opening in Kharghar, people who are achieving great things in their respective lives and fields, the youth culture, personal stories that inspire, interviews and opinions of the people of Kharghar, and everything else that would matter to us, in one way or another.
The community of Kharghar is at the heart of all our stories and features.
How our journalists work
Ethics policy
The maintenance of high editorial standards is at the core of KhargharNews’ philosophy.
Our team, comprising seasoned journalists and community journalists as well, work according to a set benchmark for ethical standards in community journalism. Every individual joining our team undergoes an ethical training session.
At KhargharNews, we recognise that protecting the rights of the individual consistently comes into conflict with the public’s right to know. This means we have to make difficult judgements, sometimes quickly, which are impossible to get right all of the time. Regular bulletins and seminars give staff the best opportunity to learn from mistakes, whether our own or those of other parts of the media industry.
Verification and fact checking
We train and expect our staff to use their best endeavours to verify the stories being put forward for publication.
Unnamed sources
Journalists have an obligation to protect their sources, but we also have a duty to establish that the sources we use are reliable and that material has been appropriately obtained. Story provenance is ultimately the responsibility of the Editor, and we ensure it is done in accordance with existing laws.
When using unnamed sources, we rely on the integrity, experience and professionalism of our team.
Corrections policy
If you believe a story we have published is inaccurate, or you have an issue about how KhargharNews has written about you, please contact us at: newscorrection@khargharnews.in
Once verified, we will correct the story on the website as soon as possible. Where appropriate, the fact a correction has been made will be noted in the story, and an apology will be posted as well, if required.
