Editorial Standards

The mission of Across the Americas is to provide public service news coverage of local issues and global forces affecting the Texas-Mexico community that is accurate and fair, produced to the highest standards of journalistic ethics. To learn more about what this means, you can visit the Society of Professional Journalists’ Code of Ethics here: https://www.spj.org/pdf/spj-code-of-ethics.pdf (PDF)

More details about journalistic independence at Across the Americas:

• This project is not currently underwritten or paid for by any third party. All future sponsors will be disclosed and clearly listed on this website.
• We make a consistent and serious effort to reach every person and organization we cover for comment on any coverage in which they are included. However, stories are never reviewed or approved by any source or subject in our coverage prior to publication.
• Any errors that appear in published content will be corrected and accompanied by a detailed update in the same piece.
• For questions or comments on editorial standards, please reach out directly to newsroom@acrosstheamericas.com.