NPR REPORTER WON'T REVEAL NEWS SOURCE

                         Roanoke Times
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DATE: TUESDAY, February 25, 1992                   TAG: 9202250058
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-4   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: WASHINGTON                                LENGTH: Short
NPR REPORTER WON'T REVEAL NEWS SOURCE
A National Public Radio journalist said she refused to reveal to a Senate investigator Monday her sources for stories on sexual harassment allegations against Justice Clarence Thomas.
Reporter Nina Totenberg told the special counsel, in a prepared statement, that her job "would not be worth having, and a free press would no longer be free" if she divulged her sources.
Later, she said of her comments to the counsel concerning the material in her broadcasts, "All I said was, `Yes I said it on the air and I believe that to be true.' "
Totenberg was subpoenaed for her closed-door appearance before Peter Fleming, who was hired to discover who leaked law professor Anita Hill's allegations that she was sexually harassed by Thomas, who now is an associate justice of the Supreme Court.
An NPR vice president, William Buzenberg, has said that in a Feb. 18 appearance before Fleming he refused to provide internal network documents and material that was not broadcast.
Totenberg and Timothy Phelps of Newsday, a Long Island newspaper, were the first journalists to reveal Hill's allegations. Phelps also was questioned by Fleming on Feb. 13 and said he refused to reveal his sources.

by Bhavesh Jinadra by CNB