The Associated Press Stylebook 2022-2024 (entry¶
Press, A. (2022). The Associated Press Stylebook 2022-2024 (entry: Anonymous Sources). Associated Press.
Cited by¶
1 citation across 1 artifact.
Each citation links to the sentence it supports in the citing article.
Domain-specific¶
- Off the Record
- 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
Verification¶
Does it exist? Not checked yet. This entry carries no identifier to resolve. It was extracted from the citation as written in the article, normalized, and deduplicated against the rest of the registry.
Does it back the claim? Not recorded. The single citation of this work carries no recorded support check.
Support is checked per citation rather than per work — the same source can be cited soundly in one article and wrongly in another. Per-citation recording began recently, so a citation with no recorded check is a gap in the record rather than evidence it went unchecked.
See how references were verified.
Registry ID ref:36609d97ec28 · see in the full table