On The Condition of Anonymity¶
Carlson. (2011). On The Condition of Anonymity: Unnamed Sources and the Battle for Journalism. University of Illinois Press.
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Domain-specific¶
- Anonymous Sourcing
- The practice is institutionalised in journalism through gradient protocols — on background (source's role may be used but not their name), deep background (no attribution even to role), off the record (the information guides reporting but cannot be published)
This sourceDocuments the two-source corroboration norm as the standing instrument applied to anonymous-sourced claims in US newsrooms.
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“a not-for-attribution arrangement deemed “deep background.””
- The practice is institutionalised in journalism through gradient protocols — on background (source's role may be used but not their name), deep background (no attribution even to role), off the record (the information guides reporting but cannot be published)
- Off the Record
- The journalism attribution ladder — on the record, on background, on deep background, off the record — is the professional vocabulary for negotiating the license terms at the start of an interaction, with each tier permitting a progressively narrower class of downstream uses
This sourceA book-length study of unnamed sourcing as a negotiated and professionally policed condition, including the Deep Throat case; the four-rung tier vocabulary itself is codified in newsroom manuals rather than here.
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- The journalism attribution ladder — on the record, on background, on deep background, off the record — is the professional vocabulary for negotiating the license terms at the start of an interaction, with each tier permitting a progressively narrower class of downstream uses
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