"I was told multiple times by editors at another women's mag to feed a source a quote—as in, "Can you..."

"I was told multiple times by editors at another women's mag to feed a source a quote—as in, "Can you call this source back and see if they'll make this specific point in these exact words?" These were stories about health, in a magazine women turn to for actual, truthful, information. (I refused.) Years ago, another women's mag so badly mangled a story I'd done for them on young breast cancer survivors that one of the interviewees called me in tears. I hadn't yet seen the printed article, which had been cut down—without my knowledge—from a feature of several thousand words to a quarter page of little more than a "charticle," featuring four of the eight women I'd profiled, with nothing other than a thumbnail photo, a single quote, and their name, age, and how they'd learned of their illness."

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Their So-Called Journalism, or What I Saw at the Women's Mags | Tooth and Claw

I am "glad" (I guess?) to see that this happens regularly on stories that are not about the sex industry or other controversial issues in which interviewees have little social cache. Oy. 

I'm authentically glad, though, that a journalist is writing about these ethics violations.