When sources scoop you
Mediabistro features a story today on how a reporter interviewed a blogger and found the entire e-mail exchange posted on said blogger’s site before the publishing of her story.
Take heed scribes, for as Mediabistro’s Greg Lindsay writes:
“So, the idea of sources publishing their interviews and spinning accordingly — without knowing what part they play in the larger story — promises to complicate their relationship even further, a headache that working stiffs don’t need.”
Journalists should be notified that this could happen to them unless they explicitly state the interview is not for publication with their sources.
