Mailing address: 31855 Date Palm Drive, No. 3-263
Cathedral City, CA 92234
760-904-4208
jboegle@cvindependent.com
Mission Statement
The Coachella Valley Independent is the valley’s source of independent news, arts coverage, commentary and culture.
We believe in true, honest journalism: We want to afflict the comfortable, and comfort the afflicted. We want to be a mirror for the entire Coachella Valley. We want to inform, enlighten and entertain.
We will never let advertisers determine what we cover, and how we cover things. In other words, we will always tell it how we see it. For example: Some other publications in this valley do puff-piece reviews or feature stories on advertisers to make said advertisers happy. We will never, ever do that. If we lose an advertiser due to an unflattering story, a negative review or something else, so be it.
Questions? Comments? Email us at jboegle@cvindependent.com.
Editor/publisher: Jimmy Boegle
Staff writers:
Kevin Fitzgerald (kfitzgerald@cvindependent.com)
Matt King (mking@cvindependent.com)
Contributors: Haleemon Anderson, Melissa Daniels, Charles Drabkin, Katie Finn, Bill Frost, Bonnie Gilgallon, Bob Grimm, Terry Huber, Valerie-Jean (VJ) Hume, Clay Jones, Matt Jones, Keith Knight, Brett Newton, Greg Niemann, Dan Perkins, Maria Ratinova, Theresa Sama, Jen Sorenson, Robert Victor
The Coachella Valley Independent is a proud member or supporter of the Association of Alternative Newsmedia, the California Newspaper Publishers Association, CalMatters, the Local Independent Online News Publishers (LION), the Desert Business Association, DAP Health and the LGBTQ Community Center of the Desert.
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Our AI Policy
The Coachella Valley Independent is dedicated to being the valley’s source of independent news, arts coverage, commentary and culture.
We, like many news publications, are continuing to explore how we use the fast-evolving tools of our trade—including artificial intelligence (AI) and large language models. Our goal is to use these technologies to improve efficiency while upholding our editorial integrity.
How we may use AI
• Transcribing interviews using tools like Otter.ai. Transcriptions are always reviewed by a human for accuracy.
• Transcribing and summarizing public meetings. Transcriptions are always reviewed by a human for accuracy.
• Checking spelling and grammar.
• To brainstorm story angles, possible sources, potential questions and possible headlines—always with oversight and review by reporters and editors.
How we do NOT use AI
• AI does not write our stories. Every story is researched, written and edited by human journalists. In rare cases where a portion of a story is crafted by AI (such as a public meeting summary), it will be disclosed.
• We do not use AI for fact-checking or editorial judgment. Our reporters and editors are responsible for verification and for all conclusions.
• We do not use AI-generated photographs or illustrations. All visuals used in our reporting are created by human photographers, illustrators or designers.
We are committed to using AI thoughtfully and responsibly. Any uses of AI will be to enhance productivity, and never to replace writing and reporting—while always maintaining the highest standards of accuracy, transparency and editorial independence.
Our Ethics and Corrections Policy
The Coachella Valley Independent follows the Society of Professional Journalists’ Code of Ethics. You can read it in full on SPJ’s website.
The four main pillars:
- Seek the truth and report it. Ethical journalism should be accurate and fair. Journalists should be honest and courageous in gathering, reporting and interpreting information.
- Minimize harm. Ethical journalism treats sources, subjects, colleagues and members of the public as human beings deserving of respect.
- Act independently. The highest and primary obligation of ethical journalism is to serve the public.
- Be accountable and transparent. Ethical journalism means taking responsibility for one’s work and explaining one’s decisions to the public.
If we publish factually incorrect information, we immediately strive to understand how and why it happened and where our systems failed that allowed inaccurate information to be printed.
Immediately after learning about an error, we correct the digital version and note the correction in the same story in order to be transparent and publish a record of what was changed.
This policy applies only to factual errors; for differences of opinion, we invite all readers, including subjects of published work, to comment online and/or submit letters or guest commentaries.
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