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- 13 January, 2005 -
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A rising theme on the subject of blogs is how does your work interfere with blog or how does your blog interfere with your work? In fact a number of people have been fired over their blogs. A few have been fired for comments made on their blog or pictures posted on their blog(a href=”http://queenofsky.journalspace.com>Queenofsky for example), but a significant number of newspaper editors and reporters are being let go because of their blog interfering with their job. Wired News has an interesting story about this called Heartaches of Journalist Bloggers.
In my opinion a reporter or editor works for a newspaper and if they have an independent blog about the same subjects they cover for the newspaper they are asking for trouble because they are being paid to cover those subjects and anything they have learned about those subjects on the job is a byproduct of their job and owned by their employer. On the otherhand if they are creating a blog about a different subject then their employer shouldn’t have any problems with it as long as it is not in direct competition of any product their employer produces (the employee handbook at a newspaper I once worked for stated that).
One final aspect of being fired for blogging is that some people have been fired for blogging on their employers time or blogging about internal company secrets– sometimes even trade secrets. Everyone should know that both of these are a no, no.
