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Cohen v. Cowles Media Co. | 457 N.W.2d 199 (1990)
Reporters often rely on anonymous sources to obtain important information that a source may not reveal if his or her name was made public. In Cohen versus Cowles Media, we’ll see whether an anonymous source whose name was later published in newspaper articles could successfully sue the newspapers under the theory of promissory estoppel.
A few days before the 1982 Minnesota gubernatorial election, Dan Cohen approached two newspaper reporters with information he had about a candidate’s previous arrests. The reporters promised Cohen that they wouldn’t reveal his name when they published their story. However, the reporters’ editors later decided to name Cohen in the stories, despite the reporters’ objections to revealing Cohen’s name. After the newspapers published Cohen’s name as the source, Cohen was fired from his job.
Cohen sued the newspapers’ publishers, including Cowles Media, for breach of contract and fraudulent misrepresentation. The trial court found in favor of Cohen and awarded Cohen compensatory and punitive damages. The publishers appealed. The court of appeals dismissed Cohen’s fraudulent misrepresentation claim but affirmed the breach-of-contract claim. Cohen and the publishers all appealed to the Minnesota Supreme Court.
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