Anonymous Sources, Confidential Sources in News

Amazon denies WSJ’s Anonymous Source Claim, Media Repeats Error, Later Corrects

Will Amazon provide customers with a free streaming service? The Wall Street Journal published a report relying on anonymous sources...

New York Times public editor Margaret Sullivan is now tracking "some of the more regrettable examples of anonymous quotations" used...

Did Newsweek reporter Leah McGrath Goodman, whose Bitcoin report has sparked a huge debate about privacy, trick her source by...

New York State's Court of Appeals ruled this week that Fox News' Jana Winter doesn't have to name her anonymous...

Michael Forsythe confirmed on Twitter this week that he is no longer with Bloomberg News. I can confirm that...

The New York Times reported last week, based on anonymous sources, that Bloomberg News is killing stories about China that...

Media outlets have been tricked by hoax names this month: San Francisco's KTVU wrongly reported on the fake names of...

How can there be a trend of young women freely having unattached sexual encounters when none of the women publicly...

The Associated Press has just reported that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is going to be indicted for his alleged role in the...