The Associated Press Stylebook 2022-2024 (entry¶
Press, A. (2022). The Associated Press Stylebook 2022-2024 (entry: Anonymous Sources). Associated Press.
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- Newsroom standards manuals — at the Associated Press and The New York Times, among others — codify the ladder and police its failure modes: they discourage vague, drifting attribution and require editors to know the identity of anonymous sources, precisely to prevent laundering the material through a second contact
This sourceThe AP Stylebook's anonymous-sources entry, the standard newsroom codification of the attribution tiers and of the conditions under which unnamed sourcing may be used.
- Newsroom standards manuals — at the Associated Press and The New York Times, among others — codify the ladder and police its failure modes: they discourage vague, drifting attribution and require editors to know the identity of anonymous sources, precisely to prevent laundering the material through a second contact
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