By NYU Staff

SOCIAL MEDIA POLICIES

Now that social media has permanently entrenched itself in today’s newsrooms, some parameters should be established to ensure its prudent journalistic use in the future. Below is a working list of intraoffice social media policies of various press organizations.

Television

-    ESPN: http://espnmediazone.com/documents/20090804_Blog_Policy.htm
-    BBC: http://www.bbc.co.uk/guidelines/editorialguidelines/advice/personalweb/index.shtml
-    ABC: http://www.mediaspy.org/report/2009/11/05/abc-sets-down-social-media-guidelines/

Newspapers

-    Associated Press: http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/threatlevel/2009/06/apsocialnetworkingpolicy.pdf
-    Dow Jones & Co.: http://savethemedia.com/2009/05/13/wall-street-journal-rules-fail-to-capture-the-value-of-social-media/
-    Los Angeles Times: http://asne.org/article_view/smid/370/articleid/317/reftab/57/t/los-angeles-times-social-media-guidelines.aspx
-    New York Times: http://www.poynter.org/content/content_view.asp?id=157136
-    Washington Post: http://paidcontent.org/article/419-wapos-social-media-guidelines-paint-staff-into-virtual-corner/

Radio

-    NPR: http://www.socialmedia.biz/social-media-policies/npr-news-social-media-policy/