A best practice a journalist should follow when making a promise of confidentiality to the source is to consider whether the confidentiality agreement is necessary to get such a story.
Confidential sources refer to sources which provide information or data to journalists or any other writers with a confidentiality agreement that their actual identities will be kept anonymous and will not be revealed in the reporting of the details that they have provided. The use of confidential sources ensures that no harm, negativity, or backlash is received by the sources providing the information which may be sensitive or proprietary. Among the best practices in journalism to use promise of confidentiality where it is absolutely necessary and the story is not possible without it. If the story can be done without such an agreement, journalists should do so.
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