Cabin Radio is committed to high-quality journalism with integrity.
We publish online breaking news and quality, in-depth journalism for more than 30 Northwest Territories communities.
Our audience in many communities is primarily Indigenous – we cover issues related to federal, territorial, municipal and Indigenous government decision-making in those communities alongside the consequences of those decisions.
Our reporting also celebrates the NWT’s communities and residents’ achievements, while we see our main role as the leading provider of context-driven northern journalism, explaining how day-to-day developments are helping to shape the politics, economy, and social fabric of the territory we live in.
Our reporters work to our code of conduct, which requires the following:
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- We prioritize accuracy and fairness in our work.
- We publish breaking news. As such, breaking news stories may contain important and relevant information but not necessarily portray all angles or voices related to a story. In that instance, we have an obligation to flesh out and report important alternative viewpoints as soon as is practicable.
- We do not misquote, or quote out of context, anyone who speaks to us. We make clear when our conversations are off-record or not for attribution. We do not treat anyone unfairly or misleadingly in the interest of a better story.
- We avoid conflicts of interest in our reporting where possible but, if conflicts are unavoidable, make them clear within the reporting.
- Where corrections and clarifications are necessary, we clearly apply them with a time stamp to our story, outlining not only the correct information but the incorrect reporting which preceded it, and why the error occurred.
More broadly, Cabin Radio subscribes to the Canadian Association of Journalists’ Code of Ethics. You can also review our style guide for more precise information about the words and phrases we use.
If you have a concern about a Cabin Radio news article, we would like to hear from you. Follow this link for more information.
Note that this page previously held a register of interests that documented the other commitments of reporters who worked part-time at Cabin Radio. As Cabin Radio has grown over time, the number of those interests has decreased.
Where a conflict of interest could be perceived, interests are now set out within the reporting – either in an editor’s note on the same webpage or verbally in the same audio report – rather than on this page, where interests may have been less immediately visible. Where possible, reporters are not assigned to cover stories where a perceived conflict could arise.
