THEY collect evidence carefully, cultivating sources and assessing their credibility.

Q. This may sound like a rather dumb, or at least, elementary question, but how do you cultivate sources on an assignment like the police beat?

You absolutely have to cultivate trustworthy sources both inside and outside your field.

Journalists cultivate sources - they're important - but you never want to get so close to a source that you're offering prior notification or sharing everything.

The ability to cultivate confidential sources is one of the building blocks of journalism.

He says he quickly figured out the value of cultivating sources on Wall Street.

Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, Poets & Writers cultivated new sources of revenue, enabling the organization to expand its programs and publications.

We either start cultivating new sources of investment capital, or we won't be able to produce musicals anymore.

In cultivating new sources of support, though, colleges are not turning their back on that traditional donor, the alumnus.

And, they say, it may be impractical, since part of an officer's job might be to cultivate sources in gangs.