Romenesko

Slate
Readers were the victims of the Baghdad diarist, Scott Thomas Beauchamp, but they'd be bigger victims still if publications stopped running pseudonymous pieces in reaction to the New Republic fiasco, says Jack Shafer. "I hope that efforts to stop Beauchampery don't induce paralysis in editors, preventing them from taking chances on young voices, inexperienced voices, first-person voices, and (gulp!) maybe even sometimes pseudonymous voices."