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by kafkaesk 4269 days ago
>More or less no newspaper will do this. Reputable newspapers will have fact-checkers who will verify stated facts and direct quotes but giving people sight of the finished article before publication is something that no-one does.

No newspaper in the US. It is standard procedure for german newspapers to ask the interviewed for "authorisation" of the transcript before publishing anything. The german journalists association distanced itself from this practice more than a decade ago, [0] but it's still very common. This comes with all the problems you would imagine, especially a tendency for soft-ball questions.

Some journalists tried to draw attention to this issue by publishing a "redacted" version of interviews [1], but at the end of the day, if single journalists or entire newspapers refuse to follow the unwritten rules, they may find themselves out of interview partners very quickly [2][3].

[0]http://www.vap-deutschland.org/beitritt-en.php

[1]http://www.journalist.de/fileadmin/Bilder/Handwerk_und_Beruf...

[2]http://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/medien/autorisierung-v...

[3]http://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/jul/16/us-campaigns-qu...