Subsidiary Confidentiality Questions

• Can you recall any times when assuring confidentiality created a problem for you?
• How did you deal with the media? Were they an asset or a liability to your work?
• When the needs of newspaper, radio, or television reporters interfered with your work, how did you deal with the problem?
• Did you ever try to use the media as an ally to mediation?
• Did you ever issue statements to the press on behalf of the parties? Under what circumstances?
• Did the parties ever agree to a policy regarding statements to the press as a condition of negotiation or mediation?
• Did you issue press releases, have news conferences, or otherwise inform the media about your activities?