First there was the old adage: never drink and dial.


Then we all learned that texting while driving was a very, very bad idea:


Now another no-no has been added to the list — for journalists.  From Mashable comes this news about Reuters:

Last night, Reuters released their social media policy, which includes instructing journalists to avoid exposing bias online and tells them specifically not to “scoop the wire” by breaking stories on Twitter.

The strict instruction makes it clear that even though news continually breaks on Twitter first — especially in disaster scenarios — Reuters journalists are to break their stories first via the wire and not on Twitter.

And why the new rules? (more…)