: If a newspaper/magazine were to receive information relating about a crime committed by a member of the public and are considering publishing this information, then the section on Privacy in

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If a newspaper/magazine were to receive information relating about a crime committed by a member of the public and are considering publishing this information, then the section on Privacy in the BBC's Editorial Guidelines would seem to be relevant.

Selected excerpts are:

The BBC respects privacy and does not infringe it without good reason,
wherever in the world it is operating. The Human Rights Act 1998
gives protection to the privacy of individuals, and private
information about them, but balances that with a broadcaster's right
to freedom of expression.

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Behaviour: There is less entitlement to privacy where an individual's
behaviour is criminal or seriously anti-social.

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Private behaviour, information, correspondence and conversation should
not be brought into the public domain unless there is a public
interest that outweighs the expectation of privacy. There is no
single definition of public interest. It includes but is not confined
to:


exposing or detecting crime
etc.

This seems to give grounds for publication of the material. That said, if the allegations of criminal behaviour are proved to be unfounded, then you could leave yourself or the magazine or the organisation (college) open to a charge of defamation. But you're already aware of this and so I won't elaborate.

Good luck.

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