Editorial Standards and Corrections Policy

The Philippine Times of Southern Nevada has served the Filipino-American community of Las Vegas and Southern Nevada since 2006. These are the standards our newsroom holds itself to, and how to reach us when we fall short of them.

Accuracy Comes First

We verify facts before we publish. Names, dates, titles, dollar figures, and quotations are checked against a primary source — the person who said it, the agency that issued it, or the document that records it.

When a story reports a government rule, a benefit program, or a legal change, we link directly to the agency publication it comes from so readers can check it themselves. We do not paraphrase a rule and leave readers to trust us on it.

How We Source Stories

• We name our sources. Anonymous sourcing is rare, and we use it only when someone faces a real risk — to their job, their immigration status, or their safety — for speaking on the record.
• We say where information came from. If a figure comes from another news organization rather than the agency itself, we say so and label it as reported.
• We distinguish what we confirmed from what we were told. Claims we could not independently verify are described that way.
• We give people a chance to respond. When a story is critical of a person or organization, we seek their comment before publication.

Corrections

We correct errors promptly and openly. We do not quietly delete or rewrite a published mistake.

• Factual errors are corrected in the article, with a note at the bottom stating what was wrong and when it was fixed.
• Significant errors — ones that change the meaning of a story — also carry a note at the top.
• Spelling of names matters to us. Filipino names are frequently misspelled in American media. Tell us and we will fix it the same day where we can.
• Updates that add new developments to a running story are labeled as updates, not corrections.

To request a correction, email editor@ptsnv.com with the headline, the specific sentence, and what should be there instead. Every request gets a human response.

News and Advertising Are Separate

Advertisers do not influence news coverage. Buying an ad in the Philippine Times of Southern Nevada does not buy a story, a favorable mention, or protection from one.

Sponsored content, advertorials, and paid business features are labeled as such wherever they appear — in print and online. If you cannot tell whether something you read here was paid for, that is our failure, and we want to hear about it at editor@ptsnv.com.

Community Coverage and Conflicts

We cover a community our staff belongs to. Our reporters attend the same churches, festivals, and civic organizations they write about. That closeness is a strength — it is why we get stories others miss — but it carries an obligation.

When a staff member has a personal or financial connection to a story’s subject, we disclose it in the story or assign the story to someone else.

Language and Representation

We publish in English and Tagalog where we can, because a community paper that only speaks one language serves only part of its community.

We use the names and terms people use for themselves. We spell Filipino names with their proper diacritics where the source provides them, and we do not anglicize a name for the reader’s convenience.

Use of Artificial Intelligence

Reporting, interviewing, and editorial judgment are done by people. We may use software tools to help with tasks like transcription, formatting, translation drafts, and research. A person reviews and is accountable for everything we publish.

Our Mission and Coverage Priorities

We exist to serve the Filipino and Filipino-American community of Las Vegas, Henderson, North Las Vegas, and the wider Clark County region. That community — not a national audience, not search traffic — decides what we cover.

In practice we prioritize, in this order:

1. News that changes what a local family does this month — benefits deadlines, elections, school and health decisions, immigration and labor rules.
2. The community’s own record — the awards, appointments, festivals, church milestones, and civic wins that no other outlet in Southern Nevada is writing down.
3. Local business and work — the small businesses, chambers, and industries where Filipino families in this valley actually earn a living.
4. News from the Philippines that reaches Nevada households — reported with the local connection made explicit, not reprinted without context.

We do not chase national politics or breaking news outside our region. Other outlets do that better, and doing it would take space from coverage no one else provides.

Verification and Fact-Checking

Before a story publishes, every checkable claim in it is traced to a source we can point a reader to.

• Rules, benefits, and legal changes are verified against the issuing agency’s own publication — not a summary of it, and not another outlet’s account of it. The agency document is linked in the story.
• Numbers — dollar figures, dates, deadlines, population counts — are checked against the primary source and attributed to it in the text.
• Names, titles, and spellings are confirmed with the person or organization wherever we can reach them.
• Second-hand reporting is labeled. When a fact comes from another news organization rather than the source itself, we say so and name them.
• What we could not confirm, we say we could not confirm. We do not round an uncertainty up into a fact.

If you can find a claim in our reporting that is not traceable to a source, that is a defect and we want to hear about it at editor@ptsnv.com.

Bylines and Unsigned Articles

Work by an individual reporter or columnist carries that person’s name. Contributing writers are listed on our masthead with their beat and, where they hold one, their organizational role — so readers can weigh who is telling them something.

Some articles run under the newsroom name rather than an individual byline. That happens when a piece is assembled from staff reporting, agency material, and community submissions rather than written by one person — service guides and issue summaries most often. An unsigned article is still the newsroom’s responsibility, and editor@ptsnv.com answers for it.

When we adapt a contributor’s print reporting for the web, we credit the original reporter at the top of the article and say that the web version was adapted. We do not put a reporter’s name on text they did not write.

How to Reach the Newsroom

• News tips: tips@ptsnv.com
• Corrections and editorial questions: editor@ptsnv.com
• Press inquiries: media@ptsnv.com
• Advertising: ads@ptsnv.com or (702) 608-4226
• General: info@ptsnv.com

See also our masthead, our about page, and our comment policy for reader discussions.