Editorial Policy & Code of Ethics

Last updated: 13 November 2026.

Aljaweea is a daily, bilingual news publication covering civil aviation, military aviation, space and the lifestyle of flight. We are read across the Gulf and the wider Middle East and North Africa, and beyond. This page sets out how we work and what we hold ourselves to. It is a public commitment, not a wall decoration — our readers, our sources and our partners can hold us to every line of it.

Aljaweea is published by Mena Alfadaya, a company registered in Kuwait. We operate under Kuwait’s Electronic Media Law No. 8 of 2016, which sets duties of accuracy and the right of reply. The standards below meet those duties and, in several places, go beyond them.

Our standards in brief

Accuracy and verification

Accuracy comes first. We check facts before we publish them, and we do not run a claim we cannot stand behind.

For any material fact — a figure, a date, an attribution, a technical specification — we apply a three-source verification discipline. A claim earns publication when it is corroborated across independent, credible sources rather than carried on a single report. Where a fact cannot be fully confirmed, we say so plainly: we attribute it, we flag the uncertainty, or we hold the story until it stands up.

Aerospace reporting carries a particular duty of care. Numbers, model designations, registration details and incident facts are easy to get wrong and consequential when wrong. We treat them with the precision the subject demands.

Independence

Our editorial decisions are ours alone. What we cover, how we cover it, and what we conclude are determined by the newsroom on the merits — never by an advertiser, a sponsor, a commercial partner, a government or any other outside interest.

No outside party reviews or approves our journalism before publication. We welcome story ideas and information from anyone; we decide, independently, what to do with them.

Fairness and impartiality

We aim to be fair to the people and organisations we report on. We represent significant viewpoints accurately and in good faith, we distinguish reporting from analysis and from opinion, and we do not suppress facts that complicate a convenient story.

Where our reporting makes a serious allegation against a person or an organisation, we seek their response before publication and give it fair weight. This reflects both our own standard and the right of reply recognised in Kuwaiti media law.

Sourcing and anonymous sources

We name our sources wherever we responsibly can; named, on-the-record information is the most useful to the reader and the most accountable.

We grant anonymity only when there is a sound reason — typically when a source faces a genuine risk to their safety, livelihood or privacy — and only with senior editorial approval. Anonymity is a protection for the source, not a shield for unverified claims: an anonymous source must still be credible, and the information they provide must still be checked. We do not let a source use us to settle scores or push an unexamined line.

We honour undertakings of confidentiality. A promise of protection, once given, is kept.

Conflicts of interest

Our journalists keep their outside interests clear of their work. Financial holdings, personal relationships, paid outside activities, gifts and hospitality must not compromise — or appear to compromise — the integrity of our reporting. Where a potential conflict exists, it is declared to editors and managed; where it cannot be managed, the journalist steps back from the story.

We do not accept gifts, trips or hospitality on terms that could be read as buying coverage. Where attendance at an industry event materially shapes a report, we are transparent about it.

Separation of editorial and advertising

Aljaweea carries advertising, and may publish sponsored content. This is how independent journalism is paid for, and we are open about it.

A firewall sits between our newsroom and our commercial operation. Advertisers and sponsors have no influence over our journalism, no advance sight of it, and no say in what we cover. Buying advertising buys no coverage, and no protection from it.

Any commercial content — sponsored articles, partner features, advertorial — is clearly and conspicuously labelled as such, so a reader is never in doubt about what is independent journalism and what is paid-for. We hold sponsored content to our standards of legality and good taste, but it is not our journalism, and we mark the line plainly.

Bilingual integrity

Aljaweea publishes in English and Arabic, and we treat both languages as equal records, not as an original and an afterthought. Every story is written in one language by its author and rendered into the other by a colleague, and both versions are reviewed and signed off before the story goes live. Neither version publishes alone.

We hold the two versions to the same standards of accuracy and fairness. When we correct one, we correct the other.

Human judgement and bylines

Aljaweea is a newsroom of people. Our journalism is reported, written, edited, fact-checked and signed off by named human editors and writers, and our bylines are human. Editorial judgement — what is true, what is fair, what is worth your time — rests with people, and that responsibility is not delegated.

We do use technology in our work, within clear limits. How we use artificial intelligence, and the lines we will not cross, are set out in full on our AI Policy page.

Privacy

We weigh the public interest in what we publish against the privacy of the people involved, and we intrude on private life only where there is a genuine public interest in doing so. We take particular care with vulnerable people, with the bereaved and with private individuals caught up in events through no choice of their own.

How we handle the personal data of our readers and site visitors is governed separately by our Privacy Policy.

Plagiarism and originality

We publish original work. We do not pass off others’ reporting, writing or images as our own. Where we draw on the work of others, we credit it. Plagiarism and fabrication are serious breaches of trust, and we treat them as serious matters.

Corrections and complaints

We make mistakes, and when we do, we put them right openly and promptly. We do not bury errors or dress them up in euphemism. When we correct a factual error, we say plainly that we have done so.

If you believe we have got something wrong, or you wish to make a complaint about our journalism, please use our Corrections & Complaints page or write to [email protected]. We take every correction request seriously, in both English and Arabic.

How this page relates to our other policies

This Code of Ethics governs our journalism. Three related pages cover specific areas in more detail:

Reviewing this code

We review this Code from time to time as our newsroom and our craft develop. The standards above are the ones we hold today.