Social Media Guidelines

http://washingtonian.com/2020/01/31/the-washington-post-needs-a-new-social-media-policy-or-maybe-some-better-guidelines/

Continuing on the topic of social media guidelines we learned this week, here’s this article. So, at first I thought: “why would a company need guidelines, it’s pretty common sense what to post and what not to post, especially if you work for the company.” Well, I was wrong. The Washington Post’s employee recently got suspended because her tweet displayed poor judgement that undermined the work of her colleagues. After a whole scandal happened, the Executive and Managing editor sent a memo to the newsroom saying their social media guidelines are in need of an update because the employee sent out something inappropriate but it wasn’t clear if she was violating the guidelines or not. Therefore, she was only suspended. In my opinion, this probably taught the company’s editors to set a clear and specific guideline for social media postings.