By: E&P Staff A new ethics policy to be issued this week at The Los Angeles Times instructs reporters to "never enter into any company computer unnamed sources," according to a New York Times report on Monday.
Editor John S. Carroll said the policy was inspired by concern that even if reporters refused to divulge sources, prosecutors could unmask them by issuing subpoenas to the newspaper's technology support staff, or even the chief executive of the Tribune Company, which owns The Los Angeles Times.
"They don't operate by the same rules as we do" in the newsroom, Carroll told The New York Times.
Ten days ago, Time Inc. turned over documents revealing sources in the Valerie Plame case after its reporter Matthew Cooper refused the special prosecutor's request to name names. Cooper argued against turning over those documents, but the company ignored him.
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