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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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Web Site:	www.poynter.org
Email:	research@poynter.org
Telephone:	888.769.6837
Address:	801 Third Street South St. Petersburg FL 33701 USA

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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


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!


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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