Word: tipstering
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...Herald got the first hint that something was wrong from an anonymous tipster who had read the Digest story. He told the Herald that he had enlisted in the Royal Canadian Air Force with DuPre in 1942, although the book said that DuPre was in France at the time. Herald Managing Editor Allen Bill, who had helped Reynolds gather information for his book, assigned Reporter Doug Collins to investigate...
...once applied for a job in the A.P. office as a translator, came to the A.P. office to try to sell Oatis a story about the whereabouts of former Czech Foreign Minister Vladimir Clementis, who had mysteriously disappeared. Oatis turned down the story, was surprised when the tipster hastily handed him a photo showing the room where Clementis had supposedly been held, then darted out of the office. Within seconds, six secret police agents entered the office, and one immediately made for the desk drawer where Oatis had dropped the picture. Triumphantly, he picked it up and shouted: "Espionage...
...Wainer editor, Tribuna da Imprensa's crusading Carlos Lacerda, had advised him to look into Wainer's nationality. Acting together, Lacerda and Chateaubriand assigned eleven reporters and five lawyers to sleuth out the facts, then blared them in Page One headlines and on radio and TV. The tipster was right: Wainer's mother had arrived from Bessarabia (now Soviet Russia) in 1915-three years after Sammy was born. Cornered, Wainer produced immigration records purporting to prove his parents' arrival in 1905. Editor Lacerda demanded the original passenger list proved that the Wainer names had been recently...
...executive in Seattle. A Finnish army veteran, Jarvinen came to New York in 1941, enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1943, later worked in the immigration service and as a seaman before going into the travel agency line. For the past six years, he has been an unpaid, occasional tipster of the Central Intelligence Agency...
...turn a fast buck is to spin a fast story." Because any one of them may have the clue to some important news development, every one of them is important to the correspondent. His first b is to screen the storytellers-some-,,_Qmes a near impossible task. Many a tipster has no more identification to 'offer than a face, a voice and a doubt ful name...