This archived screenshot preserves Guardian News & Media’s March 2026 “Editorial code of practice and guidance”, setting out standards on accuracy, right to reply, conflicts of interest, source protection, attribution, verification and professional conduct. The document is significant because it provides a benchmark for assessing later Guardian-related conduct in the CEN/BuzzFeed evidence chain, including the standards Janine Gibson would have had to apply at the Guardian and how that contrasts with the way CEN’s complaints were handled when she was at the helm of BuzzFeed UK. It is also relevant to Jim Waterson’s later Guardian reporting, where he repeated damaging BuzzFeed claims about CEN ahead of a key court case despite his earlier BuzzFeed connection and appearance in CEN-related BuzzFeed documents. The code’s CP Scott principle that “the voice of opponents no less than that of friends has a right to be heard” is central to the evidential point: BuzzFeed appeared to apply the opposite approach, treating people connected to or supportive of MailOnline more harshly when the proper journalistic standard should have been greater fairness, not less. The item helps document the gap between published editorial standards on transparency, conflicts and fairness, and the way those standards appear to have been applied when former BuzzFeed figures later dealt with CEN-related material.