Can You Publish This?

You will be able toWhen do public interest, privacy and safeguarding pull in different directions?

Case opening

What do you know?

A journalist has an interview with a survivor, a police statistic, a photograph outside a recognisable school and a quote naming a small community.

First decision

Choose before opening the debrief.

Publish everything because the survivor agreed to interviewSeparate legal restriction, identification risk, source strength and public-interest value; remove details that create avoidable harmUse the community name in the headline to make the story specificTreat the police statistic as prevalence

Record your rationale: what is known, reported, inferred, assumed or unknown?

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