Anonymous Sources, Confidential Sources in News

The Herald’s Anonymous Sources, Rumor RE S. African Mayor Criticized

A South African newspaper has been criticized for publishing an article on the mayor of a metropolitan district, Zanoxolo Wayile....

The Daily Kos's "robroser" wrote Sept. 24 noting that the New York Times Kirk Semple published an article that identified anonymous...

The Guardian's media writer Roy Greenslade reported Sept. 23 that Reporters without Borders is supporting French newspaper Le Monde in a...

The New York Times's standards editor, Phil Corbett, sent out an internal memo to the Times newsroom addressing the use...

The media frenzy this summer surrounding the disappearance of 7-year-old Kyron Horman in Portland, Ore., and the suspicion being focused...

The Chicago Sun-Times is under fire for its publication of two anonymously sourced reports that the University of Kentucky intended...

The New York Post's Annie Karni wrote in a July 18 column that she believes recent lawsuits indicate Internet anonymity...

Jacinda Woodhead wrote for the Australian Broadcast Corp. that in the interest of transparency, news organizations should link to source...

Peter Bhatia, the executive editor of The Oregonian, wrote July 10 to defend the newspaper's July 4 story "Landscaper tells...