Names are a big deal to journalists.
Naming people is an essential fact of most stories. Using unnamed sources is a big deal, too, though for other reasons. We've come up against the issue of whether to use someone's name or picture a couple of times in the last week or so, and I thought I would report to you about what we did, and why. First, a story about a picture. Recently, we photographed school children at a school event that was taking place off school grounds, in a public place.