Poynter on the Record

kaisenlog.com writes about Poynter's Al Tompkins

“[The] increasingly blurred line between
journalism and rumor is a serious concern for Al Tompkins, the
broadcast/online group leader at The Poynter Institute — a specialized
school for journalists of all media forms.

Poynter's Kelly McBride quoted in newspaperblog.ca
“It’s hard to articulate a standard that would give you the opportunity to reject something like the ‘Obsession’ DVD but allow other types of political, religious or anti-religious speech,” Kelly McBride of the Poynter Institute told the Associated Press.

PCWorld.com quotes Poynter's Al Tompkins

That increasingly blurred line between journalism and rumor is a serious concern for Al Tompkins, the broadcast/online group leader at The Poynter Institute -- a specialized school for journalists of all media forms.

"How could you possibly allow just anybody to post just anything under your label unless you have blazing billboards that say, 'None of this has been verified, we've not looked at any of this, we have no idea if this is true'?" he asks.

International Herald Tribune quotes Poynter's Kelly McBride
Kelly McBride, head of the ethics faculty at the journalism think tank Poynter Institute, said papers generally reject ads only if they promote illegal activity or might incite violence. The "Obsession" DVD, at most, makes people angry, she said.

Computer World quotes Poynter's Ellyn Angelotti
While many news sites using citizen journalists filter comments or posts from citizen before they go live, CNN does not, said Ellyn Angelotti, interactivity editor and adjunct faculty member at the Poynter Institute, a school for journalists and journalist professors.

The main goal of CNN iReport "is to really empower citizens to be the reporters," she said Friday. "They don't want to be that filter the way that some news organizations feel is important. Citizen journalists can't exist without real journalists out there to fact check and provide sense out of these flood of information."

International Herald Tribune quotes Poynter's Kelly McBride
Kelly McBride, head of the ethics department at the Poynter Institute, a journalism training center in Florida, said, "Obviously the book will be much more valuable to her if Obama is elected." Still, she said, "I don't necessarily see an absolute conflict of interest, it's not like it's his biography."

jpdigitaldigest quotes Poynter's Ellyn Angelotti
Poynter Online recently published a list of ten exciting innovations in the news tech market.

Ellyn Angelotti compiled her chart during the recent Online News Association (ONA) conference and here are some highlights from her post “Taking Back 10 Emerging Technologies from ONA”:

The New York Times quotes Poynter's Kelly McBride
Kelly McBride, head of the ethics department at Poynter Institute, a journalism training center in Florida, said, “Obviously the book will be much more valuable to her if Obama is elected.” Still, she said, “I don’t necessarily see an absolute conflict of interest, it’s not like it’s his biography.”

oregononline.com quotes Poynter's Kelly McBride
Newspapers are attacked for accepting a variety of ads deemed offensive to some, including ads from gun sellers, adult clubs and Holocaust deniers, who ran a full-page ad in The New York Times, said Kelly McBride, an ethics specialist at The Poynter Institute, a school for journalists. Newspapers see themselves as defenders of free speech, she said, and that defense extends to their ad columns.

The Minnesota Independent writes about Poynter's Al Tompkins

Al Tompkins, a media expert who arrived from the Florida-based Poynter Institute, which trains journalists, moderated the talk, saying it would be a productive dialogue between representatives of the media and law enforcement and not a witch hunt. Still, emotions ran high. On hand to answer questions from Tompkins and attendees were St. Paul Deputy Mayor Ann Mulholland, KARE-11 photojournalist Jonathan Malat, St. Paul Assistant Police Chief Matt Bostrom and Pioneer Press reporter Mara Gottfried.

vBulletin.com quotes Poynter's Rick Edmonds
“We’re getting a lot of people 45 and over, and they have money,” said James Thurber, who manages Banner Furniture’s Southeast Division Street store and who has maintained his Oregonian ad levels over the past year.

Meeker said younger readers are more desirable.

“(The Oregonian’s) lack of involvement with younger readers is a major problem for them,” he said. “We try to be a part of this community in ways the Oregonian doesn’t.”

The paper’s award-winning editorial team — Editor Sandra Mims Rowe and Executive Editor Peter Bhatia were named 2008’s “Editors of the Year” by the trade publication Editor & Publisher — can’t expect any easy answers, said Rick Edmonds, media business analyst for the Florida-based journalism think tank Poynter.

Saksi blogs about Poynter's Chip Scanlan
The instructor, Poynter,'s Chip Scanlan, has these [things] to say about listening:"A lot of times we beat ourselves,” says Pat Stith, investigative reporter for the Raleigh News and Observer.

Prepare your questions. Write them down. Train yourself to ask them as you wrote them. Don’t stumble. Ask a question and then stop. Don’t apologize for asking it. And don’t be afraid to ask the question again and again.

njarv blogs about Poynter's Sara Quinn
Since there is clearly a section of the population who note an inability to read online, perhaps there is something more than just their own waning attention that is causing this phenomenon. In a blog by Sara Quinn, a member of the visual journalism faculty at the Poynter Institute, she strives to look at what makes reading online difficult. Quinn notes that typefaces we are accustomed to in printed text do not translate well to a computer screen, taking away from the smoothness of printed text and making it more difficult for our brains to process what we are reading.