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Naming a victim: When do you break your own rule?


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TitleNaming a victim: When do you break your own rule?
Publication TypeCase Study
Year of Publication1989
AuthorsKrevetz, Charles
PublisherIndiana University School of Journalism
Publication Languageeng
Abstract

Your news department doesn’t identify sex crime victims. But the victim’s name was used before the crime was revealed. Other news outlets are using his identity – and picture. Is there any reason to now withhold the name?

Notes

FineLine: The Newsletter On Journalism Ethics, vol. 1, no. 6 (September 1989), pp. 4,5.

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