This week people have been raging at Sky News – although this time not because of Kay Burley. Instead, the anger has targeted how it reports the news via social media, after it released radical new rules that severely impact the way that Sky News journalists use Twitter.
The new rules prevent reporters from re-tweeting anything that hasn’t come from a Sky News employee and to “always pass breaking news lines to the news desk before posting them on social media networks”, reported MediaGuardian.
Staff have also been told to “stick to your own beat” and “not to tweet about non-work subjects from their professional accounts”. A Sky News spokesperson told MediaGuardian: “Sky News has the same editorial procedures across all its platforms, including social media, to ensure the news it reports is accurate.”
Read the rest of this at The Daily Blot.
