BUTCH WARD
Distinguished Poynter Fellow
Leadership & Management, Editing & Coaching, Reporting, Managing Bias
FACULTY SINCE:
January 2005
RECENT WORK:
Contributor to Poynter Online’s “Leading Lines” column and author of other columns on Poynter Online; newsroom trainer for the Committee of Concerned Journalists on topics that include bias and verification, watchdog journalism, engaging your audience and the newsroom of the future; trainer for APME NewsTrain on managing change and other newsroom issues.
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Butch was a journalist for 27 years at the Baltimore News-American and The Philadelphia Inquirer, serving stints as managing editor at both newspapers. During his newspaper career, he held editing positions in local news, features and on the news desk; he also spent two years at The Inquirer on the business side, including a year as Assistant to the Publisher.
After leaving The Inquirer, Butch spent three years being covered by journalists at Independence Blue Cross in Philadelphia.
At Poynter, Butch teaches leadership, editing and reporting. He also teaches inside newsrooms, and is a trainer for the Committee of Concerned Journalists and for NewsTrain. |
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Since joining Poynter in 2005, Butch has had the chance to share with hundreds of journalists the wisdom he first heard from a Wharton professor back in 1994 -- when most newsrooms hadn't heard of the Web. "From this day on," the professor told the seminar on managing change, "you will find nothing in your professional lives but white water." Helping journalists cope -- maybe even thrive -- in times of constant change has become the common aspiration of Butch's seminars.
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