The key to social media ethics: good judgment
When I lead seminars on digital journalism ethics, I start with some time-tested guidelines: The Society of Professional Journalists Code of Ethics, Bob Steele’s similar Guiding Principles for the...
View ArticleLos Angeles Times shows its fear of social media
I can’t keep blogging every time a major newspaper releases fear-driven social media guidelines. But once again, I can’t resist. The Los Angeles Times is the latest major news organization to...
View ArticleReviewing a year’s blogging
Reviewing 2009 on my blog (mostly for my own information, but I share it because that’s what bloggers do): My most popular post by far (more than twice as many views as anything else) was my Blueprint...
View ArticleResearch shows Twitter’s value in questioning rumors
Readers of this blog know that Twitter is one of the best tools for covering breaking news. But if you listen to and read the Twitter haters, you also hear that Twitter is a place where false rumors...
View ArticleThe Guardian shows newsrooms how to guide digital journalists
I have criticized other news organizations’ policies relating to social media and other digital journalism issues frequently in this blog: Wall Street Journal Washington Post New York Times Los Angeles...
View ArticleNews Foo Camp: where TBD is ‘mainstream’
In another context, I might have protested being labeled part of the “mainstream media.” We launched our website in August. We’re trying to be innovative and edgy in our mobile apps, use of social...
View ArticleAP offers some good social media advice, but not enough
You may have read this from me before about other news organizations: The Associated Press social media guidelines raise important issues but stop short of providing the excellent advice I would hope...
View ArticleWashington Post ‘news alert’ tells me electorate is frustrated. Really
Update: The Wall Street Journal sent an email news alert at 6:37 Monday with this subject: “WSJ NEWS ALERT: WSJ/NBC News Poll Finds Voters Deeply Torn.” The text: A new Wall Street Journal/NBC News...
View ArticleWall Street Journal lets cowardly sources avoid accountability in Goldman...
Update: Wall Street Journal reporter David Enrich has responded. I have added his response below. Jay Rosen is absolutely right to call out the Wall Street Journal on its inexcusable use of unnamed...
View ArticleDo I despair for the New York Times? No, but I’m often disappointed and pleased
A comment from New York Times Standards Editor Phil Corbett struck me in an email this week: I hope you don’t despair of The Times as a whole. I don’t despair. But I’m troubled by some things I see at...
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