(It wasn’t mandatory before, but Baquet acknowledges that newsroom pressure to be on Twitter was real and significant.) Reporters can still be on Twitter, of course, but those who remain are encouraged “to meaningfully reduce how much time you’re spending on the platform, tweeting or scrolling, in relation to other parts of your job.” Translated into policy, this “reset” means that a social media presence “is now purely optional” for journalists.
#NYTIMES TWITTER DRIVER#
It’s a major driver of harassment and abuse.
It warps their reporting by changing who they see as their audience and the feedback they get on their work.Twitter takes up too much of journalists’ time.The Times’ argument seems to reduce down to a few points: “I think if you take a look at some journalists,” Baquet told me this morning, “at The New York Times and elsewhere - how often they tweet, what they tweet, the importance of what they tweet, how much time they spend on it - you’ve got to ask yourself: If your role is to find out important facts and tell them to the world, is that the way you want to spend your day?”Īs any Twitter user knows, there are lots of reasons to not be on Twitter. This morning, in a series of memos from executive editor Dean Baquet and deputy managing editor Cliff Levy, the Times made it clear that it would like staffers to shoo away the little blue bird on their phones - or at least not feed it as often. That’s how I’d summarize The New York Times’ new guidelines on how its journalists use Twitter.
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