Only masthead editors, department heads and the editor in charge of overseeing the error-tracking system should have access to names in the database.
Rhee Beyoung Gyu, senior assistant editor, political department, The Hankook Ilbo, Seoul.
Shaun Walker and Andrew Roth, Moscow correspondents past and present, the managing editor's department and our information security team offered practical advice on how to navigate potential risks.
Michael Kagay, The Times's surveys editor, whose department compiles the list, said the paper kept its methods secret to make outwitting its system more difficult.
Joe Sexton, the sports editor, whose department produced the article, said the paper tried to respect the boy's privacy "without so diminishing a story that it would not be credible".
In response to Mr. Akass's complaint about sources, Matt Purdy, the investigations editor, whose department produced the article, said the story was "built on extensive interviews of both named and unnamed sources, as well as documents".
Over a career spanning four newspapers and two coasts, she's been responsible for a wide variety of features and hard news beats as a reporter, editor or department manager.
Wilbur wasn't expecting to get a response, but, three days later, Reader's Digest wrote an apology, claiming that his email had "spawned a pretty heavy meeting that included editors, rights department, research department, lawyers, and a spilled cup of Starbucks".
He serves as a department editor for Management Science and an associate editor for Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, Operations Research, and Production and Operations Management.
The bridegroom's mother retired this month as a journal editor for the department of psychiatry at the Yale School of Medicine.
