CBC Issues and Retracts Blogging Policy

From Inside the CBC: the CBC on Friday issued a policy which proposed to give the corporation the right to approve the personal blogs of employees. Any CBC employee who wants to start a personal blog which “clearly associates them with CBC/Radio-Canada” now requires their supervisor’s permission, according to a new policy. The word policy was later changed to “guideline document". The guidelines met with immediate and heavy criticism. I can only imagine the response it might have recieved if it hadn't gone out at 5 O'Clock at the beginning of a long weelend. Today, the CBC issued a clarification stating that the document issued on Friday was only a proposed early draft. "..we may yet try to provide some additional policy about the do’s and don’t’s of blogging in the coming months. Some of the dialogue that followed your initial posting may well be useful background in that context."

For more see Paul Gourbould's Whose Blog is it Anyway and this workaround which appeared less than 24 hours after the policy/guideline/early draft was first posted.