Mission, Values and Beliefs

KyForward will provide Kentucky with a comprehensive, multi-media news website with a strong public service component.  Our coverage will be grounded in a deep affection for our home state, strive to encourage citizen engagement and responsibility, focus on solution-oriented, fair, honest and journalistically sound coverage of significant issues, stimulate thoughtful, deliberate and responsible dialogue on critical issues, offer highest value and dignity to sponsors and advertisers, and build a viable economic model for long-term sustainability necessary for the survival of democracy.

Values and Beliefs

We value:
 
• Honesty, integrity and respect in all we do

• Ethical behavior in all aspects of our lives

• People of all races, ethnicities and religious beliefs

• Justice, equality and fairness

• Good stories, well told

• The arts and music as important to quality of life

• Access to quality education for all
 
We believe in:
 
• Democracy

• Free Enterprise

• Citizen Responsibility and Engagement

• Our Obligation as the Community’s Tribal Fire

• The Power of Words and Ideas
 
We commit to doing our part to enable:
 
• Empowered citizens to take responsibility for themselves and their communities

• Civility in public life and discourse

• Economic growth and viability

• Open, responsible and ethical government

• A bright future for our families and children

• Safe and viable communities and neighborhoods

• Celebration of success and achievement