Ethics in Journalism
Code of ethics of Kazakhstan:

1. Journalist should follow ethical norms, values and standards. Every professional Journalist will faced whether follow ethics or not, first of all be accurate, balance, fair, objective and so on.
2. Every journalist should be responsible for his article, materials that he prepared for his media.
3. Every journalist should respect his colleagues and never humiliate or insult journalists from other mass media.
4. Journalist should be independent and do not allow to interfere to own work..
5. When journalist making his functions and work he should, first of all respect and promote democracy. Also they should respect and promote human rights and freedom. Secondly, when they enlighten some events journalist should be carefully for national security. And especially be careful not to touch the feeling of victims that they already has. And third reporters should honesty should follow ethical codes.
6. Sorrow and suffering. In this case journalist should be extremely warily behave toward victims, and to avoid all situations where you can reinforce people’s pain.
7. Economical issues. Journalist could not accept any money, bribes or gifts for writing information or articles.
8. When journalists work up and spread information it is not allow discriminating people by race, sex, language, religion, and philosophical and political principles.
9. Journalist cannot lie and tell that he is another person; hiding by invented figure or position; as well do not search for Information by illegal methods, use false materials and to abuse with societies trust.
10. Facts and all materials should be double checked, even if they where considered before, or published before. The source should be really reliable.
11. If because of some reasons journalist made mistake in some information, facts, he should immediately apologies and change his mistake.
12. Journalist first of all is responsible before readers and audience. He cannot consider facts that will connect and bring benefit and gain for him.
13. Journalist should be really interested in his job, love his working place and respect his heads and colleague. Do not betray own collective and be brilliant worker (to do as much as you can)
14. Journalist does not allow publishing names of victims, interviewing people, if they do not allow him to do this. Also he could not publish photos of victims and so on.
15. Journalist should accept and respect different values of cultures, but first of all respect and love own culture, history and freedom.