Maine Monitor

The Maine Monitor says it is dedicated to delivering high-quality, nonpartisan investigative and explanatory journalism to inform Mainers about issues impacting the state, so empowering them to be engaged citizens.

Maine Monitor says it believes in the power of investigative journalism and its ability to help Mainers to better understand their state.

The newsrooms claims to be transparent about its processes, funders, and affiliations; aims to seek the truth with compassion and integrity; and to approach stories with a curious and open mind, and interrogate everything with skepticism.

It aims for its reporting to be fair, honest, and thorough, and to provide accurate context.

The Maine Monitor is published by the 501(c)(3) nonprofit Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting, and says it relies on individual contributions, major gifts, corporate sponsorships, and foundation grants.

The Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting and The Maine Monitor aims to serve all of Maine and the diverse communities across Maine. it says it is committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive board and staff that reflects the society it reports on.

The Maine Monitor aims to ensure the accuracy of everything it publishes, but admits it is not perfect. If it learns of an error in a story, the newsroom says it will correct it promptly and indicate that the story was changed by appending a correction note to the bottom with the time and date that the correction was issued.

The Monitor says it occasionally obscures identifying information (e.g. via pseudonyms or omitting last names) to protect sources from potential retribution or harms such as job loss and personal safety. It says that these decisions are made at the discretion of the editors, and are denoted within the story - a source is always known to the reporter and at least one editor, and steps are taken to verify their story in the same manner as outlined through its fact-checking policy.