Advice column: Taming your notifications
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Overcoming challenges when setting up newsroom Signal tiplines
We outline important decisions for newsrooms when setting up Signal tiplines
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Taking care with source security when reporting on abortion
What journalists can do to better manage digital security for sources when reporting on abortion.
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To protect your sources, protect your address book
Source protection is a paramount concern for journalists in every beat. Platforms like SecureDrop and apps like Signal allow you the ability to securely and privately speak with whistleblowers to break important stories. Beyond protecting the confidentiality of these conversations, however, is the concern for the metadata, or data about data, that identifies who you’ve been talking to.
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Security considerations for confidential tip pages
How journalists can safely make the most of their confidential tip pages.
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Here’s how to share sensitive leaks with the press
Thinking about securely leaking information to news organizations? This guide will show you how.
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Leaking on the clock: What your sources need to know
Last week, Eric Trump tweeted a screenshot of an email that circulated through the Trump Organization by Washington Post reporter David Fahrenthold. Although the tweet sensationalized Fahrenholt’s emails, it should fall short of qualifying for reality TV levels of drama, since reporters do this sort of thing all the time. But are there other considerations to take in mind when reaching out to sources in their workplaces?
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The first time they reach out, protect sources from themselves
Most sources don’t reach out with terribly sensitive information. But sometimes they do.
