It is difficult to draw a firm conclusion here: some of the news media have clear and transparent rules (reporting policies), but this is not applied as a regular and established practice in all media organizations. One of the failures to meet this criterion is the public service broadcaster, which not only lacks transparent and planned funding procedures, but its funding is negotiated with the government on an annual basis.

In most cases, the news media do not have written editorial policies (only a few media have these documents available online); some of the news media that do not have written policies acknowledge that having such document is an important strategic policy decision and are planning to develop such documents in the near future.