I wouldn't limit this to Journalists. It's solid advice for dealing with most anyone, particularly people with any sort of 'power' over your work and decisions

I wouldn't limit this to Journalists. It's solid advice for dealing with most anyone, particularly people with any sort of 'power' over your work and decisions. With slight modification, these are the same sort of red flags to note precautions to take when dealing with a manager, executive or customer. I think managing the expectations of non/semi-technical people and taking care in the way we evaluate and represent each other's work to those people is an important, but often overlooked part of this business.