Holding Big Stories

E&P reported Cleveland's Plain Dealer Editor Doug Clifton says the Cleveland daily is not reporting two major investigative stories of "profound importance" because they are based on illegally leaked documents

An investigative reporter should not have to depend on illegally leaked documents to write a story for him; he should find out the facts for himself.

-- and the paper fears the consequences faced now by jailed New York Times reporter Judith Miller. Lawyers for the Newhouse Newspapers-owned PD have concluded that the newspaper would almost certainly be found culpable if the leaks were investigated by authorities.