NOW YOU CAN WASH AWAY THOSE NASTY REDACTION STAINS! #journalism101
Often in response to @TBIJ #FOIA requests black redaction blocks hide the juicy details. Sometimes (as with @ben_stockton’s Barracks story this week bit.ly/38aCmL4) you can crack this and here’s how...
Often in response to @TBIJ #FOIA requests black redaction blocks hide the juicy details. Sometimes (as with @ben_stockton’s Barracks story this week bit.ly/38aCmL4) you can crack this and here’s how...
This isn’t some big secret & if they’ve done the job properly you won’t crack the redaction.
But! It’s always worth copy & pasting it into a Word document (other flavours are available) as @chantaladasilva did (and don’t worry if the format changes as below).
But! It’s always worth copy & pasting it into a Word document (other flavours are available) as @chantaladasilva did (and don’t worry if the format changes as below).
For our case, most of the key lines in the site report were in the unredacted sections but it was still useful to see the whole doc.
It only works if they’ve redacted by setting background colour to black, so: highlight the black section & just switch the theme colour to white.
It only works if they’ve redacted by setting background colour to black, so: highlight the black section & just switch the theme colour to white.
And Bingo!
Our story on what the Home Office knew about the risks of housing refugees in rundown barracks went out on the @TBIJ website (bit.ly/38aCmL4) with @Channel4News (bit.ly/3bjnmMR) and the @guardian (bit.ly/3ejHf8m).
Our story on what the Home Office knew about the risks of housing refugees in rundown barracks went out on the @TBIJ website (bit.ly/38aCmL4) with @Channel4News (bit.ly/3bjnmMR) and the @guardian (bit.ly/3ejHf8m).
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