OJB: New BBC linking guidelines
October 11th, 2010Posted by Laura Oliver in Editors' pick, Online Journalism
Paul Bradshaw takes a look at the BBC’s new linking guidelines for its website and journalists and finds particular improvement in linking out to primary sources, such as scientific journals.
Full post on the Online Journalism Blog at this link…
The BBC has previously trialled inline links to a limited number of external sources, but has since pledged to double its external linking by 2013.
Courtesy of Guardian Technology via Scribd here are the guidelines in full:
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