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How anonymous do you keep your sources?

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Matt Westerhold
Aug 23, 2026
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How anonymous do you keep your sources?

Answer:

It’s a good question. So many times someone will walk up to me, or mention in a conversation some startling information and the say, “that’s off the record.” But that doesn’t cut it, as they say in Hollywoodland.

Here’s how I treated confidential sourcesnwhen I was an editor with Ogden Newspapers: Th…

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