Reconsidering Rolling Stone's Reporting
The Rolling Stone journalists made a mistake in their reporting by failure of reporting, editing, editorial supervision and fact-checking. The published story had failed to state where important information had come from. It's good for journalists to learn from these mistakes by understanding that it's important to build a trust with the people who read your work. Journalists should be expected to "balance sensitivity to victims", "collaborate survivor accounts" and "hold institutions to account" I don't necessarily think that Rolling Stone has to change their procedures, but I do think that everyone should take extra precaution before publishing anything, especially the journalists who actually wrote A Rape On Campus.
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