WaPo Writer Outs Anonymous Source
In an absolute rarity, a source who insisted on anonymity phoned a WaPo reporter and asked him to identify her by name after the story had published. This is WaPo‘s story lab today in which Ian Shapira lets us watch journalism flip on its head.
Shapira felt “nervous” when he received the call from the female source so shortly after his story printed. He thought as many journalists do: What had he done wrong?
It wasn’t that at all.
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