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Greider, William. “Reporters and Their Sources.”The Washington Monthly (1982).
Heclo, Hugh.A Government of Strangers. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution, 1977.
Reedy, George E.The Twilight of the Presidency. New York: World, 1970.
Reston, James.The Artillery of the Press. New York: Harper and Row, 1967.
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Stephen Hess is a senior fellow at The Brookings Institution. His book The Washington Reporterswon the Lowell Mellett Award for improving journalism through critical evaluation, and he is working on a study of the Senate and the press. This article is drawn with permission from The Government/Press Connection,copyright 1984 by The Brookings Institution.
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Hess, S. Leaks and other informal communications. Society 22, 20–29 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02695377
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