1.   But Richard Tofel, a spokesman for The Journal, said the newspaper had done nothing other than update a breaking story, a standard journalistic practice.

2.   Every day, if not every hour, the Monica Lewinsky saga seems to rewrite the book on journalistic practice and standards.

3.   Foreign public-relations staffers in Beijing complain they are being squeezed between local journalistic practices and their own professional ethics.

4.   In a departure from traditional journalistic practice, the subject of the interview is allowed to review, edit and make suggestions before publication.

5.   Protecting anonymous sources is a standard journalistic practice.

6.   Arriaza told investigators he was developing information on the young woman and that eavesdropping was common journalistic practice in his country.

7.   The magazine, breaking with French journalistic practice to avoid the private lives of politicians, cited a new book by journalist Philippe Alexandre.