New York Times Company: Blogging Policies

New York Times Company, a $3.2 billion media company owns several daily newspapers such as The New York Times, International Herald Tribune, and The Boston Globe. Based on reading the company's blogging policy, they take their policies very serious. Within the company's Web Pages and Web Logs policy, it cautions that all staff members should keep their personal interests seperate from their profession. For example, if a journalist has a blog that is not associated with the company should keep that blog personal. Journalists should not post any information of the company on their personal blogs. It also states that employees who write blogs regularly, should avoid discussing topics that they cover professionally, because it will confuse the company's audience. Personal journals under the company's website should be edited by the company first.