Journalist Submission Hygiene

Protecting a source is a shared responsibility. Use repeatable process, not intuition.

Submission hygiene checklist

• Share only documents required for verification.
• Remove convenience data that is not needed for the story.
• Keep one channel for documents and another for follow-up discussion.

Coordination hygiene

• Avoid discussing operational details in public or semi-public chat channels.
• Confirm recipient identity through known newsroom channels.
• Keep timestamps and claims factual and minimal.

What this does not protect

• Recipient-side compromise or account takeover.
• Human error after transfer (re-forwarding, screenshots, local copies).
• Jurisdiction-specific legal risk.

Next safe steps

• Read /security/technical/evidence-handling-chain.
• Read /blog/submissions/sharing-documents-to-journalists.