[KSigkid]

The number of journalism professors/experts that I've talked to in my years as a reporter and student seem to err on the side of caution with rape victims - only in extreme cases would they publish names. Now, this has only been in my experience - in no way enough data to draw a conclusion from this, but I will say that they represented a vast number of prominent newspapers (Boston Globe, New York Times, Washington Post, LA Times, etc.).

As AXJules pointed out, the number of women who cry rape is low - too low to use as part of the argument of whether they should be named or not.

It's a tricky issue, I'm not sure if there's any right answer to it. If I were the reporter, I'd like to think I wouldn't publish names - but who knows how I'd feel under pressure from editors, etc. However I think the lengths the Globe went to with it were too far.