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Comments From Editors on Anonymous Sources

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From: AP Online
Date: 20050608
Author:The Associated Press

The Associated Press
AP Online
06-08-2005
Some comments from U.S. newspaper editors about their policies on use of anonymous sources, as provided for a nationwide survey by The Associated Press and the Associated Press Managing Editors:

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Tom O'Hara, managing editor, The Plain Dealer, Cleveland:

"We urge our reporters to do all they can to get the information on the record. It's impossible to establish guidelines that can cover every possible interaction between a reporter and a source. We have to trust the reporters to do the right thing."

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Dan Heckel, editor, Messenger-Inquirer, Owensboro, ...

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