Cloud Nine Entertainment Inc and its online newspapers are a community-focused lifestyle brand and new online media product, delivering content to over 8 million people worldwide through email publications, website content, and social media platforms. We provide communities in SW Florida, Lakeland Florida, and the Tri-City Area in Tennessee with everything they need to know to start their day.
Mission Statement
Lehigh Acres Gazette “Where local always matter’s”
Our mission is to publish a distinguished and profitable community newspaper. Among our overall goals are:
To publish a community newspaper whose focus will be excellence in terms of news and advertising content, reproduction, and customer service.
To maximize profits consistent with product quality but in no case less than required to assure long-term growth and our editorial independence.
To be fundamentalists in our support of the public right to know; and the right of free speech and press.
And to provide aggressive and visionary leadership.
This mission will be accomplished through the teamwork of professionals who are dedicated to truth, integrity, loyalty, quality, and hard work. We believe that a community must first know about itself in order to act in its own best interest.
We believe that a strong newspaper builds a strong community
The principles that the staff, editorial board, and corporation of the Lehigh Acres Gazette should operate on are:
- To assertively seek content that has high interest, impacts the reader, provokes discussion, and advances the reader’s knowledge.
- To react quickly to any newsworthy events, around Lakeland or in another part of the world (if it impacts our readers).
- To make the products as relevant to readers as possible by knowing what has happened, what is happening, and what will happen in the news and our community.
- To create a product that is a reflection of the diversity of the backgrounds, goals, and interests of the readers and the community.
- To consistently adhere to the highest ethical guidelines and foster the most professional environment possible at all levels.
- To develop and promote student journalists through a school mentoring program.
DIVERSITY STATEMENT
The Lehigh Acres Gazette recognizes that a commitment to diversity is crucial to fulfilling its mission to be the primary source of information for, by, and about the Lehigh Acres community. Embracing the cultural traditions, beliefs, and views of our subjects and audience strengthens this mission.
In upholding our mission to provide full, fair news coverage, the Lehigh Acres Gazette will:
- Recognize that majority groups usually have little trouble sharing their views, but that underrepresented groups do not often share that position. Therefore, the Lakeland Gazette must be committed to aggressively covering underrepresented groups to the best of its abilities.
- This does not necessarily mean running more stories about “minority” issues and people. These stories are important, but underrepresented groups have a stake in “mainstream” stories too.
- Reporters should be conscious of sourcing: Avoid making someone the single spokesperson for an entire group or community. This usually originates from needing an authoritative source, like a club leader, to talk about an event. That person becomes the go-to source for stories about issues faced by a particular group, but reporters should be aggressive about collecting sources from a wide variety of people in the community.
- Avoid stereotyping and typecasting. Racism, sexism, and any other reporting that demeans others will not be tolerated. Furthermore, no mention should be made of a person’s race, sex, religion, sexual orientation, age, or other identities unless it is pertinent to a story.
- This is especially important to note in crime stories and suspect descriptions. It may be appropriate to include racial identification if a suspect description includes other descriptors.
- Create an open atmosphere within our own newsroom that welcomes a variety of views and encourages discussion.
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Lehigh Acres Gazette Accessibility Statement
Updated: December 2021.
General
Lehigh Acres Gazette strives to ensure that its services are accessible to people with disabilities. Lehigh Acres Gazette has invested a significant amount of resources to help ensure that its website is made easier to use and more accessible for people with disabilities, with the strong belief that every person has the right to live with dignity, equality, comfort and independence.
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Email: lehighacresgazette@gmail.com
Phone: Phone: 18639782553