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Confidential sources and source protection

How to protect confidential sources in practice, what you can honestly promise, and what to do before a court or other authority demands your notes.

Promises you can and cannot keep

Much of the most important reporting begins with someone who has something to lose. A procurement officer at a regional health authority notices that contracts keep going to the same supplier. A port technician sees safety checks being skipped. A civil servant is handed a draft policy that contradicts what ministers are saying in public. Each can tell a journalist…

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