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When Your Truthful Reporting Still Hurts Your Sources

I keep writing profiles of people who trust me with their stories but when the piece comes out they feel betrayed by how I framed them even though I told the truth

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The gap between factual accuracy and relational harm reveals journalism's inherent ethical tensions.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Journalism and creative non-fiction?”

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