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(The Times takes cautious steps toward opening its online content to reader comment, a risky undertaking that opens a newspaper with a long history of dignified authority to a fractious world filled with coarse, bullying and misinformed offerings)

(Anonymous sources take a shot at the executors of Michael Jackson's estate, and a Times article about how technology is altering family routines relies on sources connected in one way or another to the newspaper or the reporter, which isn't revealed, even though they are named)

(They're officially called the SEALS, but they're the Seals in The Times. A look at Times rules about acronyms and words once acceptable that become objectionable, like midget)

(At the Public Editor's request, students at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism undertake a study of The Times' use of anonymous sources since the paper's policy was tightened in the wake of the Jayson Blair scandal. To their surprise, the students find the use of such sources fell by roughly half after the policy change. But most such sources were still not adequately described to readers)