We got the name honest.
Every newsroom fails eventually — a story missed, a source half-quoted, a correction that took three weeks. The honest thing is not to pretend otherwise, but to build a publication where failing loudly is cheaper than failing quietly.
The Failed Journalist is an independent desk covering Nepal and the world, with signed opinion and open reader polls. No advertising on the front page. No paywall. No anonymous attribution. Corrections appended to the story, not buried.
What we owe you
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Corrections are visible
When we get something wrong we append a dated correction to the story itself. We do not quietly edit a headline, and we do not delete a story because it aged badly. The archive is the record of what we believed and when.
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Attribution or it does not run
Anonymous sourcing requires a reason the reader can evaluate — usually a source who would lose a job, a licence or a safety. 'A senior official' with nothing else is not attribution, it is decoration.
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Opinion is labelled, always
Anything under Opinion is argument, not reporting. It is signed, it is accountable, and it never borrows the visual language of a news story.
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No advertising, no sponsors, no native content
We are funded by readers and nothing else. That is the entire reason the front page can be trusted, and it is why there is no ad slot on it.
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Polls published in full
Question wording, option order, response counts and the methodology note go out with every result. We do not adjust numbers after the fact, and we do not quietly extend a poll that is going badly.
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Images are sourced, not scraped
Photography is licensed or credited. Where we cannot say who made an image, we do not use it.
Tell us where we got it wrong.
- A correction we should make
- A story we should be reporting
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