- SOURCE
- Footnote material
- Where'd you read that?
- What's your ___?
- Origin
- Root
- Beginning
- Correspondent's correspondent
- Bibliography item
- Bibliography entry
- Spring, e.g.
- Fountainhead
- Reporter's aid
- Lake Itasca, to the Mississippi
- Deep Throat, to Woodward and Bernstein
- Footnote acknowledgment
- Bibliography acknowledgment
- Lake Itasca, for the Mississippi
- Font
- Reporter's contact
- Horse's mouth
- Reporter's information supplier
- Reporter's need
- Lake Itasca, vis-à-vis the Mississippi
- River's beginning
- Documentation
- Informant
- Info provider
- Originator
- Reporter's informant
- Where it comes from
- Journalist's informant
- Deep Throat, for a famous example
- Wellspring
- What Lake Victoria is to the Nile.
- Fountain.
- Derivation.
- Michener title, with "The"
- Fount
- Michener's "The ___"
- Deep Throat, e.g., in the Watergate scandal
- Deep Throat, e.g.
- One given a citation
- Horse's mouth, so to speak
- Listing in a footnote
- Journalist's secret
- Long-running hip-hop magazine, with "The"
- Supplier of information
- Footnote content, often
- Point of origin
- A journalist may cite one
- Genesis
- Person who knows the story
- What a reporter protects
