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ESPN bans Twitter and other social media by staffers
ESPN is banning Twitter and other social media by anybody that has anything to do with ESPN's core business: reporting sports.
The guidelines apply to all on-air talent, anchors, play by play, hosts, analysts, commentators, reporters and writers. Employees under the guidelines may not have
"personal websites and blogs that contain sports content."
Employees not named above have to ask permission from a supervisor before posting sports-related stories anywhere.
ESPN in announcing ban added: "Avoid discussing internal policies or detailing how a story or feature was reported, written, edited or produced"
Of course, any future story ideas are verboten too.
ESPN's site engineers and designers are working on a way to allow employees to post everywhere at once and hope to have the system operational in the next couple of months.
"Any violation of these guidelines could result in a range of consequences, including but not limited to suspension or dismissal."
Ric Bucher, ESPN basketball analyst , tweeted his reaction:
"The first and only priority is to serve ESPN sanctioned efforts, including sports news, information and content."
"The hammer just came down, tweeps: ESPN memo prohibiting tweeting info unless it serves ESPN. Kinda figured this was coming. Not sure wh ...," one tweet read.
ESPN, in banning Twitter joins the NFL in banning tweets.
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