Via Journalism.co.uk, AFP reporters can no longer use ‘virtual’ sources:
Agence France Presse (AFP) has banned its journalists from using Facebook and Wikipedia as sources, the agency’s London bureau chief told a Lord’s Committee yesterday. In response to a question from the Lord’s Committee on Media Ownership and the News about the trustworthiness of online sources, Pierre Lesourd said that internal rules that governed the entire organisation prevented journalists from relying on many new ‘virtual’ sources for news.
“We have internal rules that are regularly updated [on this matter]. Wikipedia for example, we have a written rule inside the company that forbids any journalist using Wikipedia,” he said.
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