Source Code, Part I: Correcting the record

Red Pen: A Grammar Podcast

On the record, off the record, on background, deep background: What to expect when you're expecting to be a source.
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Thing 1: Ryan Davis
Thing 2: Mike Laws
Producer: Amanda Darrach
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Show Notes:
A scrappy newspaper’s final cover lacks Voice, Alexandria Neason, CJR
Journalists are fed up with requests to be ‘on background’ or ‘off the record,’ Ted Kitterman, PR Daily
Artforum Fires Top Editor After Its Open Letter on Israel-Hamas War, Zachary Small, The New York Times
Both Sides Now, Amanda Darrach, CJR

Kapitler

1. Source Code, Part I: Correcting the record (00:00:00)

2. How to be a source (00:05:35)

3. Sources don't call the shots (00:12:17)

4. Tape recorders ready (00:17:19)

5. Ask first, leak later (00:22:29)

6. No one changes a quote (00:27:22)