A reporter's guide to practicing self-defense in the newsroom

A tipsheet for investigative journalists.

Hello, everyone! I write to you from the Investigative Reporters and Editors conference in Anaheim, where I’m moderating a panel on how to use your newsroom union to protect your journalism.

As part of the panel — and to add to IRE’s impressive library of practical advice for investigative journalists — I prepared this tipsheet slideshow on practicing self-defense in the newsroom.

Like any self-defense manual, the purpose of this advice is to teach preservation for rank-and-file journalists, not destruction. Lashing out and breaking things is easy. Fixing something is harder. This guide is for the would-be repairers and builders among us.

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