Here you’ll find a list of resources that may (or may not) be useful for your day to day work as a journalist. If you know of any other please email me with details and I’ll try and add them in.

Editorial guides/Codes of conduct

• Mail&Guardian Editorial Code of Ethics
• BBC’s Editorial Guidelines
• New York Times’ Ethics in Journalism guide
• Reuters’ Handbook
• Guardian’s Editorial Code
• Boston Globe’s Journalism Ethics Policy
• The Roanoke Times News Standards and Policies

Social media policies

• BBC Guidelines for social networking and third party sites
• BBC Social Media Guidance (PDF – specific guidance on using SM)
• Associated Press’ Social Media Policy (updated November 2011 here)
• Reuters’ Reporting from the Internet guide
• Bloomberg’s Social Media Guidelines
• NPR’s Social Media Guidelines
• Los Angeles Times’ Social Media Guidelines
• New York Times web pages and web logs policy
• Guardian’s guide for journalists
• Washington Post’s Newsroom Guidelines for Use of Facebook, Twitter and Other Online Social Networks 
• ESPN’s social media policy (PDF)
• Mail & Guardian’s social media policy

Style guides

• A List Apart – Short, concise guide from the experts at online design and publishing.
• The Economist – The online version of this magazine’s excellent style guide.
• BBC News – A downloadable copy of the BBC’s short but useful style guide.
• Guardian – The Guardian’s style guide.

Other references

Survival Glossary for Digital Journalists – Hacks/Hackers’ useful reference on technical terminology.

[This is still being worked on. If you have any contributions please email me.]