A Journalism Dean and Anonymous Sources

The Chicago Tribune reports on a flap over some writing that Northwestern’s dean of journalism did for its alumni magazine last year. In a piece in the Daily Northwestern, the student newspaper, a student reporter questions Dean John Lavine’s use of anonymous quotes in two pieces that he wrote for the magazine. Dean Lavine stands behind his work. Read more here in an article by the Trib’s Jodi S. Cohen and Tara Malone. NPR has more in an audio interview with the student reporter.