Navigating the Use of Off the Record and Background Information as a Journalist

"I try to minimize harm and maximize truth," says Kim H. Cross, author of In Light of All Darkness: Inside the Polly Klaas Kidnapping and the Search for America's Child (Grand Central Publishing).

In this episode we touch on:

• Giving people agency
• The ethics of writing true crime
• Being a human first and a journalist second,
• And the importance of setting up writing retreats for yourself

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