My managing editor made it very clear to my fellow reporters and me that we had to name our sources. We were not permitted to cite anonymous sources, and the only time we could cite a report was when it was a police report (from a named police department).
If you read just about any negative news article about Trump (and they're all negative) from AP, Reuters, WashPoo, etc., you see "sources say" or "according to reports." This is not good reporting. It violates just about every tenet of reporting, in fact. Those old rules have been discarded, clearly, in order to completely convert news reporting to editorializing.