The Times Issues Social Media Guidelines for the Newsroom<br />I think this is especially important as a strategy for women, at a time when people think<br />that rape memes are a good way to respond to a story they don’t like by a female New York Times writer.”<br />• If you feel threatened by someone on social media, please inform your supervisors immediately.<br />The new guidelines underscore our newsroom’s appreciation for the important role social media now plays in our journalism,<br />but also call for our journalists to take extra care to avoid expressing partisan opinions or editorializing on issues that The Times is covering.<br />• If you don’t know whether a social media post conforms to Times standards, ask yourself these questions:<br />Would you express similar views in an article on The Times’s platforms?<br />• We want our journalists to feel that they can use social media to experiment with voice, framing<br />and reporting styles — particularly when such experiments lead to new types of storytelling on The Times’s platforms.<br />• Our journalists should be especially mindful of appearing to take sides on issues that The Times is seeking to cover objectively.
