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10 Best Practices for Social Media: Helpful Guidelines for News Organizations

ASNE Ethics and Values Committee (2011), 50 pp.
"Here are the 10 key takeaways:
1. Traditional ethics rules still apply online.
2. Assume everything you write online will become public.
3. Use social media to engage with readers, but professionally.
4. Break news on your website, not on Twitter.
5. Beware of perceptions.
6. Independently authenticate anything found on a social networking site.
7. Always identify yourself as a journalist.
8. Social networks are tools not toys.
9. Be transparent and admit when you’re wrong online.
10. Keep internal deliberations confidential." (Executive summary)