Nieman Journalism Lab: Matthew Ingram on the WSJ’s social media policy
May 14th, 2009Posted by Judith Townend in Editors' pick, Online Journalism, Social media and blogging
The Wall Street Journal’s rules of conduct were zipping around yesterday, inspiring comments from Jeff Jarvis, and others. Matthew Ingram, over at the Nieman Journalism Lab, agrees with Jarvis that the restrictions are too tight.
“Obviously, a newspaper doesn’t want to give away the store and tell everyone what stories it is working on, or tip its hand in a variety of other ways, and probably doesn’t want to go into detail about how certain stories emerged (especially if it was a fortuitous accident). But Jarvis is right that talking about stories that are under way can also have tremendous benefits,” Ingram writes.
Tags: Jeff Jarvis, Matthew Ingram, nieman journalism lab, social media policy, The Wall Street Journal, Wall Street Journal
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