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  Introduction
  Interviewing: Kelly Shephard
  Dealing with contributors: Ben Sutherland
  Upholding privacy: Beatriz Gomez
  Zimbabwe: Joseph Winter
  Uzbekistan: Pahlavon Turgunov
  On Mr Milosevic: Geraldine Coughlan
  Safeguarding children in Africa: Valerie Msoka
  Reflecting the Afghan people: Asif Maroof
  Covering 9/11: Stephen Cviic
  Bugging and recording
  Anonymity
  Paedophiles and identification
  Accessing untransmitted material
 
Paedophiles and jigsaw identification

Paedophiles and identification

The BBC will normally only consider publishing the names or photographs of paedophiles or sex offenders who have served their sentences and been released where the police have decided to release these details to the general public.

The fact of publication by other media will not be considered a sufficient justification in itself.

You need to take special precautions to avoid the "jigsaw effect" in serious sex offences involving children, whereby different news organisations give different information about the victim, which can then be pieced together to identify them.



 
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