Blogging the ongoing evolution of Poynter Online.

Shape Poynter’s New Website, Coming in November

Poynter is known as a school that teaches journalism excellence; Poynter Online is known for Romenesko. To better serve people looking for our teaching or our media news, we are recreating our website.

As Poynter celebrates its 35th anniversary in … Read more

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Friday, Nov. 07, 2008

Post Web Site Screen Grabs to Poynter Groups

The ink is never dry on the Web. Especially during lively news days when news site home pages change constantly. That’s why we are capturing screen grabs of various sites each day. See an example of our Homepage Highlights photo Read more

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Thursday, Oct. 23, 2008

Why Do You Deserve a Raise?

All Poynter Online users can log in to the site and read any blog posts in Poynter Groups. To create your own blog post or contribute a comment, you must join the group you would like to post to. … Read more

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Thursday, Sep. 04, 2008

Follow Journalism Conversations on Twitter

When we redesigned Poynter Online last month, we unveiled Poynter Groups — a new way to connect with other journalists and have conversations.

About 1,500 group members are participating in our seven journalism topic groups that include Ethics & Diversty, … Read more

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Monday, Aug. 11, 2008

Take a Tour of the New Poynter Online

The new Poynter Online is up and running, ready for what we trust will be your easier and more enjoyable use. We hope you’ll begin by taking this Flash tour.

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Coming Saturday: The New Poynter Online

By Bill MItchell
Director of Poynter Online

On Saturday, Aug. 23, we’ll debut the new Poynter Online. We’ve prepared this page to alert you to:

Highlights of The Read more

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Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Poynter Commenting All-Stars

By Ellyn Angelotti
Interactivity Editor and Adjunct Faculty

As we’ve mentioned in previous Poynterevolution posts, we’re getting ready to enhance Poynter Online with a new way for you to connect with Poynter and one another using Poynter Online Groups — … Read more

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Tuesday, July 01, 2008

Continuing to Demystify Web Lingo

By Ellyn Angelotti
Interactivity Editor and Adjunct Faculty

In October of 2007, we introduced the WebSpeak column, a feature to help improve journalists’ comfort with the rapidly evolving lingo of online journalism.

Since then, Staff Development Editor Dana Eagles and … Read more

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Thursday, June 12, 2008

Supplying a Voice for Visual Journalists

By Sara Quinn
Visual Journalism Faculty

As a descriptor, “visual journalism” covers a lot of ground — particularly as journalists pick up new tools and cross-train around the newsroom. A new Poynter Online column, “Visual Voice,” is a weekly … Read more

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Wednesday, June 11, 2008

How Public Should Personal Pages Be?

By Bill Mitchell
Director of Poynter Online

The new version of Poynter Online, coming later this summer, will enable registered users to maintain an online home that will automatically generate a customized url as follows:

www.poynter.org/bill-mitchell. (It’ll look better … Read more

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