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TheLizardKing89 t1_ixfmf5e wrote

Reply to comment by Agent_Angelo_Pappas in Associated Press reporter fired over erroneous story on Russian attack by Moynamama

>What were the editors supposed to do? For anonymous sources they can’t really ask who the source is without compromising anonymity

I’m not a journalist, but isn’t it pretty common for a reporter to tell their editor who their sources are? When a reporter promises to protect a source’s anonymity, they mean from the government, not from their editor.

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LeicaM6guy t1_ixgixjw wrote

Different publications have different standards and it can depend on a lot of things, but it largely boils down to how much trust the editor has in their reporter and what’s at stake for the source. When it comes to lives and conflict reporting though, you don’t fuck around.

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