I know that a number of people here are using psuedonyms, but everything we do will have to be sourced. So here are some simple rules.
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Every comment we print must be on the record. I.E. named source.
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If you obtain an e-mail from Joe Smoe, you don’t have to provide your name because the person’s own correspondence (which you will save) speaks for itself.
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If the information is the product of an oral interview the interviewer must use their real name. If you want to pre-interview someone and then send Sambo Steve or myself, in to get them on the record, so be it, however if the person later denies saying certain things to the interviewer we will need a live body to stand up and say, bullshit! he did say, X, y, and Z.