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How to craft social media rules for journalists

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This is a bit old, but I hadn’t seen it until today, thanks to the topic rearing its ugly head again around the recent Barrett Tryon kerfuffle.

Anyway, here’s John Paton, outlining his company’s social media rules for journalists:

Some of you have asked what are JRC’s Employee Rules For Using Social Media. To keep it simple I have reduced them to three:

The sweet payoff is at the link.

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  1. Irony abounds, especially since current Gazette management holds Paton in high regard — so much so that, when the opportunity arose, Freedom took up Paton on his standing admonition to “put the digital people in charge. Of everything.”