KELLY MCBRIDE
Ethics Group Leader and Co-leader of Poynter Ethics Fellows
Teaches in Poynter seminars, consults in newsrooms, conducts workshops at industry conferences, writes for Poynter Online and other journalism publications.
FACULTY SINCE:
July 2002
RECENT WORK:
Co-leader of six-week Summer Fellowship for Young Journalists
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Kelly is the ethics group leader at Poynter, where she helps journalists strengthen their ethical decision-making skills and improve their writing, reporting and editing skills. She has been on the Poynter faculty since 2002.
In addition to running the Ethics Department, Kelly directs both of Poynter’s annual fellowship programs. The Poynter Fellowship for Young Journalists gathers 32 of the brightest entry-level writers, photographers and designers for a six-week program often likened to journalism boot camp. This year the program became a full-fledged multi-media program. The Poynter Ethics Fellows gathers 16-20 editors, producers and reporters to address the ethics issues of the day. Twice Kelly has traveled to South Africa to lead advanced reporting and writing seminars geared toward reporters working in a young democracy.
Before coming to Poynter, Kelly worked as a reporter for 15 years, spending most of that time at The Spokesman-Review newspaper in Spokane, Wash. She covered crime and courts for six years and faith and ethics for eight years. She gained national attention for a package of stories on gay Christians and a series on the consequences of infertility treatments, as well as several stories on the clergy scandals of the Catholic Church.
Kelly has a BJ from the University of Missouri School of Journalism and an MA in religious studies from Gonzaga University. Kelly has a neurotic dog that she rescued after it was abandoned in the Poynter parking lot, tied to a light pole. More importantly she has three well-adjusted children, who have survived dozens of Poynter parties, a cross-country move and the embarrassment of riding in the car with friends while their mother discusses ethical decisions like whether to name rape victims or air beheading videos. |
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Kelly spent 14 years covering saints and sinners in Spokane, Wash. Now she's at Poynter, searching for the soul of American journalism.
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