Article: I'm going on the record when it comes to anonymous bloggers.(Column)

Article: Newspaper ombudsmen's reactions to use of anonymous sources.
Newspaper Research Journal;  June 22, 1997 ;     700+ words ......find that most feel their papers use anonymous sources about the right amount and that the...Journalists are ambivalent about the use of anonymous sources: They criticize their overuse, yet...wrote: Many journalists feel about anonymous sources the way people in troubled ...

Article: A staple of reporting that must end
Portland Press Herald (Maine);  May 22, 2005 ;     700+ words ......revelations that a Newsweek story, based on anonymous sources, couldn't be confirmed and had to...17 people dead. The item, quoting anonymous sources, said a military probe had found...industry has an addiction, and it is to anonymous sources. We cannot seem to control the use...

Article: TH policy restricts use of anonymous sources; With rare exceptions, quoted sources are 'on the record'
Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque);  June 14, 2005 ;     470 words ......am not surprised that debate about anonymous sources flared with the recent identification...revelation leads to consideration of anonymous sources, which remains a very current issue...has had a written policy concerning anonymous sources, and the policy was reviewed and...

Article: Anonymous sources: Is confidentiality right?
University Wire;  June 28, 2005 ;     635 words ......fire in recent months for the use of anonymous sources. Area news sources have differing...Register Star has had a strict policy on anonymous sources for at least 15 years, said Executive...owner, which discussed the use of anonymous sources. "We do not use anonymous ...

Article: Anonymous sources. (journalists' use of anonymous sources) (includes related articles) (Cover Story)
American Journalism Review;  December 1, 1994 ;     700+ words ......country were agonizing over the use of anonymous sources, fearing they were relying on them...to a substantial degree with how anonymous sources were handled at their own newspapers...would be similar today. The issue of anonymous sources always makes editors uncomfortable...

Article: USING ANONYMOUS SOURCES MEDIA EXPERTS: WHEN, HOW THEY'RE USED IS KEY.(FRONT)
Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI);  June 5, 2005 ;     537 words ......has raised the issue of anonymous sources. Some journalists and media observers contend that anonymous sources are the bane of modern journalism...Politics and Public Policy, says anonymous sources are critical to a journalist...

Article: READERS SPEAK
Yakima Herald-Republic;  June 20, 2005 ;     321 words ......made up the Readers Speak survey on anonymous sources: 1. In general, do you think the...its job effectively without using anonymous sources? Would you be willing to risk never...getting inaccurate stories based on anonymous sources? Please explain. 2. Have you recently...

Article: Revelation of Deep Throat fuels debate over anonymous sources.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch (St. Louis, MO);  June 4, 2005 ;     700+ words ......Secretary Donald Rumsfeld was asked about anonymous sources, on the heels of the revelation that...still wrestling with the role of anonymous sources and government leaks shows that this...and media observers contend that anonymous sources are the bane of modern journalism...

Article: Anonymous sources cost newspapers credibility
Yakima Herald-Republic;  March 2, 2008 ;     700+ words ......tendency for media of all types to use anonymous sources -- and then bending or even breaking...Republic's Ethics Guidelines: The use of anonymous sources hurts our credibility; it causes...cases there are times when the use of anonymous sources allows us to report news that might...

Article: Anonymous sources needed, but must be used with caution
The Quill;  June 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ...Anonymous sources are losing favor in journalism...but not "unequivocally" good. Anonymous sources can generate some important stories...reminder of the enormous potential of anonymous sources. The problem is that they also...

Article: Off the record, newspapers have a problem; Newsweek's botched story and other recent miscues raise concern about media's use of anonymous sources.(USA)
The Christian Science Monitor;  May 25, 2005 ;     700+ words ......greater targets than the media's use of anonymous sources. Now the issue is being revived in...Since the days of the penny press, anonymous sources have been a way for reporters to...responsibility for approving the use of anonymous sources, and Newsweek will stop using the...

Article: A New Times Memo on Anonymous Sources.
The New York Observer (New York, NY);  June 5, 2008 ;     700+ words ......them to 2007, and they found that anonymous sources had basically dropped by half at...J-School to gather data on our use of anonymous sources. The results present an excellent...distributed guidelines on the use of anonymous sources. The students read every article...

Article: MEDIA; NEWSWEEK RETRACTION; 'Hooked' on anonymous sources? Flap highlights credibility hurdles.(NEWS)
Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN);  May 23, 2005 ;     700+ words ......are hooked (Overholser's word) on anonymous sources. Overholser recently heard Mike McCurry...ombudsman, Overholser said reliance on anonymous sources should be reserved for rare cases...for forcing journalists to rely on anonymous sources. This is one of the most secretive...

Article: A downward trend in use of anonymous sources: surveys of journalists and public opinion place the use and need for anonymous sources in a broader context.(Words & Reflections)
Nieman Reports;  June 22, 2005 ;     610 words ......about some findings on the use of anonymous sources that are in the 2005 State of the...than half of the stories contain anonymous sources, and when we looked at packages on...suspect a lot of these references to anonymous sources would not be on stories where the...