Media · Desk Camp

Journalist

Notes and drafts. Sources never leave this machine.

Source notes are not training data.

  1. 01

    Outline from your notes

    The structure. You still report the holes.

    Stays off the model. Source notes never leave this machine.

  2. 02

    Lede options

    Three starts. You pick the honest one.

    Stays off the model. Unpublished material stays unpublished.

  3. 03

    Ask the clip file

    What did we already print about this?

    Stays off the model. The morgue is local.

  4. 04

    Interview questions

    What you still do not know.

    Stays off the model. Off-record notes stay off-record and off-cloud.

  5. 05

    FOIA / records request

    Specific, boring, hard to refuse.

    Stays off the model. The request log stays on disk.

  6. 06

    Copy desk pass

    Tightening. Not inventing a fact.

    Stays off the model. Embargoes stay embargoes.

  7. 07

    Corrections language

    What we got wrong. What we now know.

    Stays off the model. Legal stays in the loop.

  8. 08

    Newsletter

    The week, in the desk’s voice.

    Stays off the model. Subscriber lists stay in the ESP.

  9. 09

    Podcast show notes

    From the transcript you made here.

    Stays off the model. Raw audio stays in the recorder folder.

  10. 10

    Safety / security notes

    How this desk handles a threat.

    Stays off the model. Source identities stay in your head or in encrypted notes — not in a trainer.