Our Culture and Values

Meeting people’s needs for news and information requires independence, commitment to serving the public interest and a profound respect for the truth. That’s why our culture and work environment are built on values that call forth the best in us individually and collectively: integrity, personal responsibility, collaboration, continuous improvement, communication and a customer-service focus.

We strive to be honest, responsible and courageous in our relationships with the community we serve, and with each other. And we share the excitement of being a 24-hour-a-day, seven-day-a-week news and information source – and a place where work makes a difference.

Our work is grounded in one of our nation’s most basic freedoms, which is contained in the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution:

“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”