Online Article: Covering Whistleblowers: 6 Tips for Journalists

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To help newsrooms fine-tune their strategies for covering this scandal — and whistleblowing complaints that are sure to come forward, both locally and nationally, in the future — we asked for advice from veteran journalists, journalism faculty and scholars who study whistleblowing behavior. We also turned to advocacy organizations that work to protect and defend whistleblowers.

Here are six tips we put together, based on their collective insights.

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Online Article: Covering Whistleblowers: 6 Tips for Journalists

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Field	Value
Document type	Archived web content
Language of document	English
Topics	Anti-corruption
Geographic area (spatial range)	Global
Copyright	Yes
Access and use constraints	Attribution CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 - The content of this research may be reproduced and distributed for non-commercial purposes, if (organization/individual) is notified and the authors are acknowledged as the source.
Version / Edition	Not specified
License	Creative Commons Attribution
Contact	Website: https://journalistsresource.org/ Original link: https://journalistsresource.org/tip-sheets/reporting/whistleblowers-tips-journalists/
Author (individual)	Denise-Marie Ordway
Publication place	Cambridge
Publisher	Journalist’s Resource
Publication date	2019
Pagination	Online article
Keywords	Whistleblower,Journalists,Strategy,Leakers,Protection
Date uploaded	August 16, 2020, 22:33 (UTC)
Date modified	August 16, 2020, 22:34 (UTC)