Karen Brown Dunlap is the CEO of Poynter Institute.
The Poynter Institute is a school for journalists, future journalists and teachers of journalists. It offers workshops and interactive courses for broadcast and print journalism for use by educators and students.
Its courses include programs on leadership and management, news reporting and writing, producing news for broadcast and online, ethics and diversity, and visual journalism. It also has a variety of learning resources such as a research library.
Founded in 1975 by Nelson Poynter, chairman of the St. Petersburg Times and its Washington affiliate, Congressional Quarterly, the Institute was bequeathed his controlling stock in the Times Publishing Co. in 1978. As a financially independent, nonprofit organization, The Poynter Institute is beholden to no interest except its own mission: to help journalists seek and achieve excellence.
The Times Publishing Company publishes the St. Petersburg Times, and operates Congressional Quarterly and other publications.
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Media Owners editors Boulder Colorado USA | Posted at 9:11am on Tuesday, February 8, 2011 |
Poynter Launches a New Writing Webinar Series
-- Training package designed to help individuals enhance their writing skills, the institute announced on February 7, 2011:
"Beginning in February and running through December, the Poynter Writing Webinar Series will deliver training on 10 of the most requested writing topics.
"The Poynter Institute has a long and rich history of teaching the craft of writing," said Stephen Buckley, Poynter's dean of faculty. "With this training package, we're covering the topics that never go out of style – from how to write profiles to how to polish your prose."
The Webinar Writing Series kicks off on Wednesday, February 9. Each month (except August) NewsU will offer a Webinar that addresses a featured writing topic. These training events will be 75 minutes – 15 minutes longer than the standard Poynter NewsU Webinar – and feature handouts, tips sheets, readings and other materials. The lineup includes:
* February 9 : Write with Voice and Tone with Kelly McBride
* March 9 : Short Narrative Bursts: Social Media Writing with David Folkenflik
* April 20 : Making Words, Pictures and Sound Work Together with Al Tompkins
* May 5 : How to Use Detail in Your Writing with Steve Gray
* June 8 : Mastering Revision: Polish Your Writing like a Pro with Chip Scanlan
* July 20 : Adding Verbs with Verve and Volume to Your Writing with Jacqui Banaszynski
* September 15: Writing Successful Profiles with Kelley Benham
* October 12 : Reporting and Writing Scenes with Tom Huang
* November 2 : Writing for your Website: How to Make Readers Stick with Mike Schwartz
* December 7 : The Secret of Making Complicated Facts Easy Reading with Roy Peter Clark"
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Media Owners editors Boulder Colorado USA | Posted at 11:07am on Tuesday, February 1, 2011 |
On January 31, 2011, Poynter, a school dedicated to teaching practitioners and teachers of journalism, announced the appointment of six new members to its National Advisory Board (NAB):
"Together, the new members bring to the Board experiences in traditional and new forms of journalism, as well as in academia – areas Poynter seeks to serve with its expanding number of training opportunities.
Those named to the Board are:
* Philip Bennett, Eugene C. Patterson Professor, Duke University
* Martin Kaiser, Editor and Senior Vice President, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
* Mindy Marques Gonzalez, Executive Editor, The Miami Herald
* Amanda Michel, Director of Distributed Reporting, ProPublica.org
* Mike Riley, Managing Editor, Bloomberg Government
* Shawn Williams, Editor, Dallas South News
Dr. Karen Dunlap, Poynter's President, called the new members "a talented group of men and women who have committed to help Poynter stay in the forefront of serving journalism in the interest of democratic societies."
"They join a National Advisory Board that challenges us, informs us and helps Poynter make the changes needed today," she said."
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Mondo Times editors Boulder Colorado USA | Posted at 11:09am on Tuesday, November 2, 2010 |
Winners of Poynter's Entrepreneurial Journalism Prize Announced
-- November 1, 2010 -- Two ventures focused on civic affairs -- I-News and Localocracy -- have been selected as winners of the Poynter Promise Prize, an incubation project in entrepreneurial journalism run by The Poynter Institute and funded by the Ford Foundation.
I-News, the Rocky Mountain Investigative News Network, is a Denver-based nonprofit that produces in-depth investigative reporting that is published on its own site and is distributed to participating news organizations.
Localocracy is a Massachusetts tech start-up that provides an online town common where registered voters using real names can weigh in on local issues. The company licenses tools for audience engagement to news organizations, governments, and local groups.
The winners were selected from a field of 15 finalists in a contest kicked off on Poynter Online Oct. 1. Four judges picked the winners: Bill Mitchell and Wendy Wallace of Poynter's entrepreneurial journalism faculty, and Mark Briggs and Jeremy Caplan, Poynter's Ford Fellows in Entrepreneurial Journalism Teaching.
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Media Owners editors Boulder Colorado USA | Posted at 8:26am on Thursday, October 28, 2010 |
McCormick Foundation Partners with Poynter Institute to Administer the Specialized Reporting Institutes
-- October 27, 2010 -- The McCormick Foundation is pleased to announce a new partnership with the Poynter Institute to administer its 2011 Specialized Reporting Institutes (SRI) program. The SRIs are a popular series of intensive journalism workshops designed to provide subject-specific expertise and practical skills to working journalists. This partnership strengthens the Foundation's commitment to ensuring that citizens have access to quality news content.
Poynter will oversee the application process, answer applicants' questions, work with McCormick to select SRI hosts and then be a resource for hosts as they carry out and evaluate their events.
Poynter also will work with selected SRI hosts to create a custom training resource page on the News University website and to increase the impact, effectiveness and visibility of the events.
The $340,000 grant will cover Poynter's costs and fund six to eight SRIs next year, one of which will be hosted by Poynter.
"Poynter has conducted a number of our journalism trainings in the past, and we've always been highly satisfied with the results," said Clark Bell, the McCormick Foundation's journalism program director. "The organization's knowledge, customer service and digital capabilities will only enhance the impact of the SRI program."
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Media Owners editors Boulder, Colorado USA | Posted at 3:00pm on Wednesday, July 21, 2010 |
Why Journalists Make Mistakes & What We Can Do About Them
On July 19, 2010, the Poynter Online website ran a story by Mallary Jean Tenore about journalists and the errors they make:
"The Chicago Tribune's infamous "Dewey Defeats Truman" headline, the 2000 election night calls for Al Gore and then George Bush, a 2004 Providence Journal headline that said, "Rumsfeld's Pubic Role is Shrinking."
These mistakes reflect the reality that, as hard as we try to get the facts right, sometimes we get them wrong. Our fallibility is the subject of journalist Kathryn Schulz's new book, "Being Wrong," which looks at how human error can transform our perceptions of the world and of ourselves.
Curious about how Schulz's findings relate to journalism, I talked with her about:
* The need for corrections that address the range of errors journalists make.
* How the provisional nature and accelerated pace of journalism can lead to error.
* Reasons news organizations don't correct most of their mistakes -- and what they can learn from them."
The full story:
www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=101&aid=186404
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Rebecca Woodbury, New Jersey | Posted at 7:38am on Monday, April 28, 2008 |
Aw. It is so cute that your interested in govermental issues at such a young age. Keep up the good work!
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Jay Haynes Booneville,U.S.A. | Posted at 7:56pm on Friday, November 16, 2007 |
I am 9,but am a big U.S.A historien.I checked out September 11,2001,A Colliction of Newspapers From Around the World.I have had it for 1 week,and I do not plan on returning it soon!I thank you for showing your patriotism and this great country why our boys are in Baghad,Irag.And God bless you for doiting all profits to The September 11th fund.
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