Focus (Forum & Focus)
Feb. 27, 2008
Off the Record, on Deep Background: What Does It All Mean?
Forum Column - By Elizabeth Lampert and William-Arthur Haynes - Lawyers and reporters should establish clear ground rules before conducting interviews.
By Elizabeth Lampert
and William-Arthur Haynes
This article appears on Page 6.
Think you know the difference between off the record, background and deep background? The American Journalism Review once surveyed a handful of veteran news reporters and found out they, some of the most heralded practitioners of the craft, had quite different understandings of what these very common terms mean.
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