Reuters Handbook of Journalism now available
July 10, 2009 2:51 pm Additional ResourcesNews service Reuters made their Reuters Handbook of Journalism available online.
The handbook includes sections on Standards and Values; a Guide to Operations; a Sports Style Guide; a General Style Guide; and a Specialized Guide.
According to Reuters, they made the handbook public for reasons of transparency, service, and geography.
For more information on the contents of the handbook, please visit this blog post: For the Record (Dean Wright on Ethics, Innovation and Values).
Dean Wright is Global Editor, Ethics, Innovation and News Standards. Any opinions are his own.
A is for abattoir; Z is for ZULU: All in the Handbook of Journalism
The first entry is abattoir (not abbatoir); the last is ZULU (a term used by Western military forces to mean GMT)….
The handbook is the guidance Reuters journalists live by — and we’re proud of it. Until now, it hasn’t been freely available to the public. In the early 1990s, a printed handbook was published and in 2006 the Reuters Foundation published a relatively short PDF online that gave some basic guidance to reporters. But it’s only now that we’re putting the full handbook online….
