To assure submitting authors that their work will be held in the strictest confidence, and to protect peer editors from the appearance of impropriety, the author, the author's mentor, the editor-in-chief, and the peer editor all sign a Statement of Confidentiality and Understanding.
"Who is going to be the go-to guy to protect the editor from all the billionaires?
The attackers stormed into the newsroom, and police officer Franck Brinsolaro, who had been detailed to protect Charlie Hebdo editor Stéphane ("Charb") Charbonnier, was shot before he had the chance to draw his weapon.
Brinsolaro was assigned to protect the editor of Charlie Hebdo, according to police union representatives.
Brinsolaro was a assigned to protect the editor, according to police union representatives.
Marcus Brauchli, the top-ranking editor at the time of the sale, worked diligently on a detailed editorial-independence agreement that, in a version Murdoch rejected, would have created an advisory board to vet personnel choices and would presumably have protected senior editors from the new owner's whims.
This information can help editors protect their journals and readers from errors, scientific misconduct, and fraud.
"But it's when your editors protect you, and devote your time to something, that you can really shine a bright light".
The unravelling of the Watergate burglary's White House connections, led by the Post's Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein and robustly protected by editor Ben Bradlee and owner Katherine Graham, climaxed in the one and only resignation of a US president in 1974.
An Inquiry into Peer Review", in which McGiffert argues, based on survey results, that editors should protect the identity of authors, but that editors, "...should leave referees free to decide for themselves whether or not to make themselves known [to the author]" (p. 47, McGiffert, 1988).
