unnamed source
Confidential news contact
An unnamed source is a person who provides information to journalists or investigators on condition that their identity not be revealed.
The practice allows insiders to share sensitive information without professional or personal consequences: According to an unnamed source within the administration, the policy will be reversed.
Also called anonymous source.
- anonymousOf unknown origin
- leakEscape through a breach
- leaked documentUnofficially released confidential material
- insiderOne with confidential access
- tipsterOne who shares predictions
whistleblower · confidential · off-the-record · deep throat · informant · scoop · journalist · classified · redacted · background · exclusive · hush · secretive · mole · shadow · hidden · trust · protection
- secrecysecrecy, secret, secrets, confidential, classified
- confidentialconfidential, secret, private, classified, undisclosed
- hidden identitiesanonymous, anonymity, pseudonym, alias, incognito
- Unknown Identitiesstrangers, unknowns, Jane Doe, John Doe, anonymous
unnamed, source, name, named, nameless, naming, names, rename, renamed