Charter of "Gazeta Wyborcza"
(translation from Polish)
Our team has its roots in Solidarity movement and loyal to its traditions.
I. "Gazeta Wyborcza" will:
1. Provide up-to-date, well written, and comprehensive news coverage.
2. Publish news commentary, clearly stated and differentiated from news and information; it will voice clear position on key issues.
3. Objectively present a variety of viewpoints.
4. Present views which are not its own not only in the form of news coverage, but also as documents, interviews and articles. Viewpoints thus presented should be material or represent a significant constituency and cannot call for violence, spread hatred or libel.
5. "Gazeta Wyborcza's" primary accountability is to its readers.
II. "Gazeta Wyborcza" and its majority shareholder, Agora, have the following objectives:
1. To achieve and maintain European standards of quality, financial stability and "Gazeta's" organization.
2. To maintain political and economic independence.
3. To be the best and most important daily newspaper in Poland.
All other objectives and activities are secondary to the ones above.
III. The achievement of the following ends will be "Gazeta's" end Agora's measures of success:
1. The largest circulation among serious dailies.
2. Impeccable reputation as a credible source of information and supporter of just causes.
3. Employee satisfaction, measured by their unwillingness to leave "Gazeta" in order to join other publications.
4. Consistent profitability levels permitting growth and stability.
IV. "Gazeta Wyborcza" and Agora wish to represent to the employees of the company:
1. A vehicle for realizing their professional ambitions.
2. An employer who pays well and, in the case of the best very well.
3. For the core of the team - the only possible employer.
Employees are expected to be fully available as to working hours; their participation in TV and radio programs, as well as writing for other publications, requires permission of the management.
Employees are represented by labor unions and professional associations.
