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93/09/15: "Too close for comfort," Folio:The Magazine for Magazine
Management, at 13 (available in LEXIS-NEXIS News Library) (potential liability for
allegedly ineffectively masking confidential sources)
"Reporters and magazines can avoid such liability by putting the promise in
writing or agreeing only not to use the source's name, says Lawrence Savell, a lawyer
specializing in media law with New York City's Chadbourne & Parke."
93/10/01: "Latest rulings in publishing negligence suits," Folio:The
Magazine for Magazine Management, at 13 (available in LEXIS-NEXIS News Library)
(products liability concerns of publishers):
"To help avoid future suits, Lawrence Savell, a products liability litigator at
New York's Chadbourne & Parke, advises publishers to consider printing disclaimers in
each issue."
93/10/30: "Sound legal advice" (Editorial), Editor & Publisher
Magazine, at 4 (available in LEXIS-NEXIS News Library):
"A NEW YORK lawyer had some good advice last week when he told reporters and
editors that if they were going to 'mask' their confidential sources to protect them, they
should do it correctly and completely.
"The trouble, Lawrence Savell wrote (E&P, Oct. 23, p. 3), is that reporters
are trying to give readers a more complete picture of their confidential sources to
bolster their credibility and in so doing are rendering their unnamed sources easily
identifiable based on information disclosed in the article. He cited a complicated case
involving that issue.
"Savell's advice is that writers discuss in advance with their sources the actual
descriptions to be used and get the sources' approval in writing. That shouldn't be
difficult, and it will save lawyers a lot of work and headaches as well as saving
publishers money."
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