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In investigative journalism, important news stories often depend on such information. For example, the Watergate scandal which led to the downfall of U.S. president Richard Nixon was in part exposed by information revealed by an anonymous source ("Deep Throat") to investigative reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein.
News media and their sources have expressed concern over government covertly accessing their private communications. [1] To mitigate these risks, journalists and sources often rely on encrypted messaging. Journalists rely on source protection to gather and reveal information in the public interest from confidential sources. Such sources may ...
Anonymous sources are double-edged—they often provide especially newsworthy information, such as classified or confidential information about current events, information about a previously unreported scandal, or the perspective of a particular group that may fear retribution for expressing certain opinions in the press.
A person who wishes to remain anonymous has pledged a $10,000 reward for information leading to the whereabouts of Heather Teague. Anonymous donor pledges $10,000 reward for new information in ...
The latter criterion is a fairly recent development in LTE management. Prior to the Cold War paranoia of the mid-20th century, anonymous LTEs were common; in fact, the right to write anonymously was central to the free-press/free-speech movement (as in the 1735 trial against John Peter Zenger, which started with an anonymous essay). By the ...
Numerous interviews with on-the-record sources as well as, in some instances, interviews with anonymous sources (for example whistleblowers). [4] Federal or state Freedom of Information Acts to obtain documents and data from government agencies.
The incident sheds light on how social media accounts that shield the identities of the people or groups behind them through clever slogans and cartoon avatars have come to dominate right-wing ...
Remains anonymous January 14, 2016: Living Under the Sword of ISIS in Syria [7] "[The author being from] Raqqa using a pen name to protect him from being targeted by the Islamic State". [2] Author lived in Raqqa city, then controlled by Islamic State group. Remains anonymous March 31, 2016: A Syrian Refugee’s Message to the European Union [8]