Newspapers Forbid Anonymous Sourcing
DAVID CRARY, AP, writes:
Editors at about one in four newspapers who responded to a survey say they never allow reporters to quote anonymous sources, and most others have policies designed to limit the practice. One editor said his paper’s rules are so strict they would have disqualified Deep Throat as a source.
Geneva Overholser, a professor based at the Washington bureau of the University of Missouri School of Journalism, welcomed what she described as a “dramatic tightening” of anonymity policies.
“Of course I worry whether stories will be lost,” she said. “With this very important tool of journalism at risk, we have to protect it by being more disciplined and cautious about when we use it.”
Go to my index of the best US newspapers here
No Comments »
No comments yet.
RSS feed for comments on this post. TrackBack URI
Leave a comment
Line and paragraph breaks automatic, e-mail address never displayed, HTML allowed: <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <code> <em> <i> <strike> <strong>
