Summary: <p>This week, we consider whether information should ever be off-limits to journalists. It’s a thorny ethical question raised by FBI informants, hacked sources and shockingly intimate personal data. Plus, why a conservative Catholic publication’s outing of a gay priest has garnered criticism from all sides. </p> <p>1. Ken Bensinger [<a href="https://twitter.com/kenbensinger?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor">@kenbensinger</a>], investigative reporter for Buzzfeed News, on what new evidence surrounding the plot to kidnap Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer says about the how the government defines, and attacks, domestic terrorism. <a href="https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/segments/fbis-role-breaking-plot-kidnap-michigans-governor-on-the-media">Listen.</a> </p> <p>2. OTM reporter Micah Loewinger [<a href="https://twitter.com/MicahLoewinger">@MicahLoewinger</a>] and guest host Brandy Zadrozny [<a href="https://twitter.com/BrandyZadrozny">@BrandyZadrozny</a>] examine whether or not it's possible to ethically use information from data breaches. Featuring: Kevin Collier [<a href="https://twitter.com/kevincollier">@kevincollier</a>], cybersecurity and privacy reporter for NBC News, Kim Zette<a href="https://twitter.com/KimZetter">r</a> [<a href="https://twitter.com/KimZetter">@KimZetter</a>], a journalist covering cybersecurity and the author of <a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/219931/countdown-to-zero-day-by-kim-zetter/">Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World's First Digital Weapon</a>, and Lorax Horne [<a href="https://twitter.com/bbhorne?lang=en">@bbhorne</a>], writer with Distributed Denial of Secrets. <a href="https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/segments/ethics-reporting-data-leaked-ransomware-attacks-on-the-media">Listen.</a></p> <p>3. Sara Morrison [<a href="https://twitter.com/SaraMorrison">@SaraMorrison</a>], data and privacy reporter at Recode at Vox, discusses the dangers information for sale after a Catholic priest was outed by a newsletter that obtained his location data from an app. <a href="https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/segments/ethics-using-legally-obtained-personal-data-reporting-on-the-media">Listen.</a> </p> <p>4. Mike O’Loughlin [<a href="https://twitter.com/MikeOLoughlin">@MikeOLoughlin</a>], national correspondent at Catholic media organization America, reflects on how new methods are stoking old fights in the Catholic Church. <a href="https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/segments/blaming-gay-priests-on-the-media">Listen.</a></p> <p><em>Music:</em></p> <p><em>Invitation To A Suicide by John Zorn</em><em>Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien by François Plaf, Blue Radio OrchestraHow Strange by Nicola CruzNatural Light by Bill Frisell</em><em>Slow Pulse Conga by William PasleyWallpaper by Woo</em></p>
