anonymous sources

Anonymous sourcing is more important — and riskier — than ever

Anonymous sources are to journalists what a 12-pound funnel cake is to a kid at…

Dean Baquet: San Bernardino coverage revealed systemic failure at The New York Times

An error-laden story that faulted federal officials for failing to properly screen San Bernardino shooter…

The Intercept is developing editorial standards for using anonymous sources

More than a year after its inception, The Intercept is developing a series of editorial…

NYT grants anonymity to woman who ‘always wanted to be an anonymous source’

5 tips for getting people to go on the record

Michael Kranish, the Boston Globe's deputy Washington bureau chief, was able to get classmates of…

Post-Dispatch reporter slugged during Michael Brown protests

Good morning. Liev Schreiber will reportedly play Marty Baron in a movie. I am tempted…

Circulation revenue rises at Gannett’s local papers

Good morning. Here are 10 (OK, perhaps slightly more than 10) media stories. Gannett had…

Google protesters arrested; what @SavedYouAClick won’t do

Good morning. Here are 10 media stories. Net neutrality protesters reportedly arrested at Google HQ:…

Morning media roundup: Anonymous sources, FOIA ‘terrorism,’ Chelsea Clinton’s salary

Twice in the last two weeks, New York Times reporters got burned by anonymous sources,…

Anonymous sources: leaving journalism’s false god behind

Editor's Note: John Christie, editor in chief of the Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting,…

NYT public editor takes off again after anonymous sources

The New York Times In the second installment of AnonyWatch, New York Times public editor…

Does a ‘savvy media observer’ require anonymity for smack talk? Apparently so!

In Lloyd Grove's column about The Intercept, a "savvy media observer and journalist" lets Glenn…

For readers puzzling over anonymous sources, a few primers

Huffington Post | Esquire | The New York Times According to an anonymous source (OK, it was my…