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From editorial director of news Kate Shellnutt: This year, we’ve seen a couple of prominent stories where the way a journalist obtained the news became news itself. Months after The Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg got added to a Cabinet-level Signal chat, Lawfare reporter Anna Bower began receiving Signal messages from interim US attorney Lindsey Halligan.
This time, the texts really were meant for the reporter. But days after their exchange, Halligan messaged that "by the way—everything I ever sent you is off record," and Bower had to tell the district’s top prosecutor and former Trump attorney that she couldn’t go off-the-record after the fact. Bower reported on it anyway.
This is no "gotcha"—it’s standard practice for journalism. If sources know I’m a reporter when we talk, what they say is fair game for a story unless we both agree otherwise before we talk. Saying "off-the-record" in the middle of a conversation is not a magic eraser for anything that has been said already. If sources ask to go off-the-record during our conversation and I don’t agree, they may decide not to talk further. I may have to go find another source. My goal is always to learn the most I can to tell a truthful and accurate story to our readers.
When people haven’t interacted with the media before, they may not know how the process works, and it’s our job to tell them upfront so they understand how their words could be used. But for leaders who have media experience, we expect them to know that when they make a comment to us, it could end up in a story. Even if they send it by text.
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The Christian story shows us that grace often comes from where we least expect. In this issue, we look at the corners of God’s kingdom and chronicle in often-overlooked people, places, and things the possibility of God’s redemptive work. We introduce the Compassion Awards, which report on seven nonprofits doing good work in their communities. We look at the spirituality underneath gambling, the ways contemporary Christian music was instrumental in one historian’s conversion, and the steady witness of what may be Wendell Berry’s last novel. All these pieces remind us that there is no person or place too small for God’s gracious and cataclysmic reversal.
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