The Balancing Act of Reporting on Vulnerable Kids While Protecting Their Privacy
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The standard in journalism is to identify sources by their full names whenever possible. Readers deserve to know who’s talking, particularly when a source is accusing a person or a public system of wrongdoing. And it’s part of our job, as reporters, to demonstrate why we deserve a reader’s trust.

In writing about kids with mental health challenges, however, things get complicated.

https://www.propublica.org/article/privacy-mental-health-journalism-kids-families?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post