Publication of our Editorial Guidelines is way overdue. These policies arose out of the discussions that took place the Charlottesville blogger’s conference in August and follow-up posts on the Bacon’s Rebellion blog. Will Vehrs, a former contributor to Bacon’s Rebellion (we miss you, Will, sniff! sniff!), deserves most of the credit (or onus) for composing our guidelines. He wrote the first draft and posted it here. After reviewing the animated blogger commentary, I made some modest amendments. Unfortunately, I let the project languish until an exchange with Waldo Jaquith inspired me to get off my duff and finish the job.
Bacon’s Rebellion has no intention of imposing its guidelines on anyone else, or even insisting that every blog needs a set of guidelines.
Our goal is simply to make Bacon’s Rebellion a professional and credible source of news, information and commentary for Virginia, and we hold ourselves to the highest standards. We will make our editorial guidelines accessible to the public, and we expect readers to hold us accountable when we fall short.
You can read the Bacon’s Rebellion editorial guidelines here.
