Here’s a link to Arthur Brisbane’s column in which he grants a former military officer anonymity to question the ethics of the Wikileaks dump. Brisbane has been on the job for about a month and has yet to write a column bemoaning the use of unnamed sources at his newspaper. Former public editors Daniel Okrent, [...]
Interesting article about the move to limit anonymous comments from newspaper websites: The more I researched the history of American news media, the more I realized that our profession’s disdain for anonymous commentary is built upon a myth. Anonymity isn’t anathema to American democracy; in fact, anonymous speech is exactly what the framers of the [...]
Matt J. Duffy wrote his dissertation on the use of unnamed sources. He teaches new media and journalism courses at Zayed University in Abu Dhabi, UAE. Duffy worked as a journalist for many years including stints at The Boston Herald, The Nashua (NH) Telegraph, the (Jackson, MS) Clarion-Ledger and the Marietta (Ga.) Daily Journal. He's served as a reporter, copy editor and news editor.
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