Technology makes things easier for journalists but it's also made it riskier for sources, Sherry Ricchiardi writes in an American Journalism Review story about new ways for governments and others to keep tabs on reporters: "Government spying and journalists being stalked are nothing new. It's the methods that have changed. The Washington Post's Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein didn't have to worry about Trojans stealing the identities of their Watergate sources."
September 1, 2012