Alert
The Limits of Control
August 20, 2009
With journalists and their employers increasingly active on social media sites like Facebook and Twitter, news organizations are struggling to respond to a host of new ethics challenges.
(AJR) As a journalist, is it okay to describe your politics as "kind of a Commie" on Facebook?
Do you stop friends from posting pictures of you on their MySpace pages?
How about that video of you at the tailgate party going up on YouTube?
For journalists today, social networking sites are increasingly blurring the line between the personal and professional, creating a host of ethics and etiquette questions for news outlets.