
Policies on comments
Dec. 15, 2010
There is no industry standard when it comes to how news organizations handle reader comments on their websites. But they all assert that the responsibility for what's being said online rests with the comment author — a radical departure from the print world. Below are links to the policies from a sampling of news organizations.
Newspapers
TV networks
Blogs and Magazines
- The Atlantic
- The Daily Beast
- Gawker Media and more Gawker
- Huffington Post
- New York Magazine
- Salon (Table Talk discussion forum)
- Slate (The Fray discussion forum)
- Talking Points Memo and more Talking Points
- Tech Crunch