Why your Yorkshire Evening Post will always hold the powerful to account with Your Right To Know campaign

Last month your Yorkshire Evening Post made a bold statement.
The Yorkshire Evening Post today launches its Your Right To Know campaign.The Yorkshire Evening Post today launches its Your Right To Know campaign.
The Yorkshire Evening Post today launches its Your Right To Know campaign.

We warned readers about being careful over whether their news has been verified by an accountable and trusted publisher that conducts thorough research before publication.

The very cornerstone of solid fact-checked journalism is built on integrity, honesty and trust.

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And that is why today the Yorkshire Evening Post is launching its Your Right to Know Campaign.

We will use the power of legislation to shine a spotlight on issues that we think you - our readers - have a right to know.

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It is also our intention to highlight the positive way our city’s organisations behave, as well as calling out underperformance in key organisations.

Championing Leeds is at the very heart of what this newspaper strives for. However, in order to do this we need to make sure we are firmly holding key organisations across our city to account.

And you can be assured the YEP is watching.

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As a trusted source of local news it is our duty to let you, our readers – the people who live and work in our city – know exactly how your money is spent and how our public organisations are performing.

We’ve been accused by readers of “sloppy” journalism in recent weeks – but now we’re fighting back.

Our industry is under the cosh as never before.

But your YEP will always uphold the cornerstone of journalism – to hold the powerful to account.