1. List of 40 Social Media Staff Guidelines compiled by Australian social media consultant Lauren Papworth.

This list also includes policies called Staff blogging policies, enterprise social network guidelines, Employee Blogging Policies, Staff engagement in online communities, and so on.

2. Newsroom Policies that include Social Media:

-  Los Angeles Times updates their social media guidelines for journalists on 21/11/2009 

 -  National Public Radio (US) @JeffJarvis: 'NPR rules better than others. But silly "balance" clause requires "friending" both sides of an issue. Life ain't binary' (Thu 15 Oct 14:16, via Tweetie)

- Roanoke Times (VA, USA) worked with the Poynter Institute to update their news policies to include social media.

- Wall Street Journal management outlined their view on the 'professional conduct ' of staff, including the use of social media in this Memo republished in the Editor & Publisher. Related story in Time) 

3. General Social Media Policy advice for companies from the Chartered Institute of Public Relations. Also flags possible legal issues.

Also see: 

Media Company banning the use of Social Media sources: Agence France Presse reporters barred from using Wikipedia and Facebook as sources.

Associated Press Board of Directors (06 April 2009) announced it would launch an industry initiative to protect news content from misappropriation online.

AP Chairman Dean Singleton said the news cooperative would work with portals and other partners who properly license content – and would pursue legal and legislative actions against those who don‘t.