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The Associated Press taps Daisy Veerasingham as its new president and CEO

'I am thrilled to take the helm of this deeply respected news organization,' Veerasingham said in a statement.

August 3, 2021

Amaris Castillo

It’s not just up to the media to be responsible for news coverage of COVID. What about the audience?

People are worried and tend to gravitate toward negative news out of their concern for themselves and their loved ones.

August 3, 2021

Tom Jones

The NewsGuild just broke its annual organizing record — with five months to go

More than 1,500 workers across 29 workplaces have joined the largest union representing journalists so far this year.

August 3, 2021

Angela Fu

70% of US adults have taken at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine

Plus, people are getting vaccinated in secret, restaurants say they can't take another hit, 1 million doses have been wasted, and more.

August 3, 2021

Al Tompkins

George Washington mandated Revolutionary War troops be inoculated against smallpox

A viral image claims Washington made the vaccine mandatory. It's mostly true. In 1777, he issued an order to have all troops inoculated.

August 3, 2021

Ciara O'Rourke

The media is making missteps in covering COVID

The media, perhaps even unintentionally, often isn’t telling the full story in the fight against COVID-19, and this is leading to confusion and panic.

August 2, 2021

Tom Jones

How Hearst is conquering Connecticut with the latest in a growing roster of statewide networks

Most news outlets cut back to service only metro areas during the Great Recession. That’s changing in South Carolina, Arkansas and, now, Connecticut.

August 2, 2021

Rick Edmonds

The Associated Press taps Daisy Veerasingham as its new president and CEO

'I am thrilled to take the helm of this deeply respected news organization,' Veerasingham said in a statement.

August 3, 2021

Amaris Castillo

The NewsGuild just broke its annual organizing record — with five months to go

More than 1,500 workers across 29 workplaces have joined the largest union representing journalists so far this year.

August 3, 2021

Angela Fu

How Hearst is conquering Connecticut with the latest in a growing roster of statewide networks

Most news outlets cut back to service only metro areas during the Great Recession. That’s changing in South Carolina, Arkansas and, now, Connecticut.

August 2, 2021

Rick Edmonds

Writers Guild announces ‘pause’ on organizing digital newsrooms

At issue is whether the union, which has primarily represented screenwriters in the past, should take on more journalists

July 30, 2021

Angela Fu

It’s not just up to the media to be responsible for news coverage of COVID. What about the audience?

People are worried and tend to gravitate toward negative news out of their concern for themselves and their loved ones.

August 3, 2021

Tom Jones

The media is making missteps in covering COVID

The media, perhaps even unintentionally, often isn’t telling the full story in the fight against COVID-19, and this is leading to confusion and panic.

August 2, 2021

Tom Jones

Should journalists be allowed to protest? A legendary news organization tries to address that issue

NPR unveiled a new ethics policy that cracks open the door to allow journalists more freedom in their civic lives away from work.

July 30, 2021

Tom Jones

ER doctor talks about ‘horrid’ shift in stunning CNN interview as country once again reaches for masks to fight COVID

‘They come in begging for help, but also refusing the vaccine. It’s utterly ironic. It’s, quite frankly, anger-inducing.’

July 29, 2021

Tom Jones

Black first, journalist second: HBCU students leave an emotional school year with lessons for self

‘I can’t ever be a journalist first because the intersections of my identity are just larger than my career.’

July 16, 2021

Jaden Edison

14 questions for new journalists to consider when filing a story

If you’re new to reporting, follow this easy checklist when drafting and filing a story.

July 14, 2021

Julie Patel Liss

UNC donor says he has no regrets about his role in the journalism school losing Nikole Hannah-Jones

‘I feel certain I did what I should appropriately have done,’ Hussman says. ‘I didn’t lobby against her appointment.’

July 6, 2021

Rick Edmonds

UNC campus expresses regret and sadness — plus defiance toward leadership — over Nikole Hannah-Jones’ decision to teach at Howard

A Howard professor said the move represented a ‘paradigm shift’ for journalism education

July 6, 2021

Barbara Allen

Journalists share the stories behind their stories with virtual storytelling collective Local Live(s)

‘People who didn’t care about news … were staying late after the show to buy beers for the journalists,’ Local Live(s) co-founder said.

July 27, 2021

Amaris Castillo

Sarah Huckabee Sanders plays politics with COVID in a guest column for The Democrat-Gazette

But maybe anything that encourages someone to get the vaccine could be viewed as positive.

July 26, 2021

Tom Jones

Governments created an informational black hole for Indigenous communities and COVID-19

How did the pandemic affect the 576 tribal nations across the US? Due to a lack of government transparency, we may never know.

July 23, 2021

Tristan Ahtone

You can’t be a truth-seeker if you’re also a liar

Trump’s claim that he won the 2020 election is one lie in a culture of falsehood. Media ethics students learn they, too, often fail at truth-telling.

July 22, 2021

Michael Bugeja

George Washington mandated Revolutionary War troops be inoculated against smallpox

A viral image claims Washington made the vaccine mandatory. It's mostly true. In 1777, he issued an order to have all troops inoculated.

August 3, 2021

Ciara O'Rourke

CDC test can’t differentiate between COVID and the flu? That’s wrong.

While the CDC is withdrawing its EUA request for the 2019-nCoV RT-PCR test, it is not because the test is faulty.

August 2, 2021

Victoria Knight

When will the COVID-19 vaccines get full FDA approval?

The short answer — at least for one vaccine — is sometime between now and January 2022.

July 30, 2021

Miriam Valverde

Let’s review some falsehoods about masks

While debating their usefulness, it’s helpful to remember some of the wilder falsehoods about their utility

July 29, 2021

Harrison Mantas

Who is selecting the next Cohort host?

Diverse hiring panels are key. Meet ours: Mel Grau, Ren LaForme and Samantha Ragland.

July 6, 2021

Mel Grau

From campus open carry to student surveillance, these are the project and schools in our College Media Project

Seven schools will receive training, mentorship and funding from Poynter to execute an investigative project in the fall semester.

June 22, 2021

Poynter Staff

Guiding ‘Summiteers’: How one Poynter seminar helps reporters and editors reach new heights

A Q&A with Tom Huang, lead faculty for Poynter’s upcoming Summit for Reporters and Editors

May 24, 2021

Mel Grau

Meet the first cohort of Poynter’s 2021 Leadership Academy for Women in Media

The first of three classes will gather in Poynter’s interactive online learning environment for a week of leadership training in May.

April 13, 2021

Mel Grau

The argument over content moderation is ‘missing context’

Researchers argue the debate about free speech versus online harm requires a better understanding of how social media feeds us information

July 22, 2021

Harrison Mantas

Here are Twitter’s most prolific citizen fact-checkers

Twitter’s crowdsourced fact-checking platform Birdwatch is improving. Meet the non-journalists fighting misinformation on it.

July 15, 2021

Alex Mahadevan

IFCN launches working group to address harassment against fact-checkers

A core group of 11 representatives from the fact-checking community teams up to support IFCN in addressing the increasing volume of harassment cases.

July 13, 2021

Baybars Örsek

Trump et al. are misinformed about fact-checking and the Constitution

Yesterday’s complaint reveals a fundamental misunderstanding about the authority to limit speech. It's putting some fact-checkers at risk.

July 8, 2021

Harrison Mantas

Here are the newsroom layoffs, furloughs and closures that happened during the coronavirus pandemic

We're still updating this list

July 30, 2021

Kristen Hare

Lessons from the Miami Herald’s Monica Richardson

Who does your career belong to?

July 28, 2021

Kristen Hare

Gannett has sold 23 publications back to local owners

It’s part of a larger trend of chains selling off local newsrooms

July 27, 2021

Kristen Hare

More chain-owned news organizations are returning to local ownership

From New England to Arkansas, local investors are buying news outlets from large chains and seek to reverse what they see as decades of disinvestment.

July 26, 2021

Mark Jacob

Introducing the 2021-22 Poynter-Koch Media and Journalism Fellows

More than 50 journalists from news organizations across the country are accelerating their careers through a yearlong program.

June 30, 2021

Tina Dyakon

Poynter and MediaWise announce a new class of Campus Correspondents

Students from across the nation will help their peers spot misinformation online and in social media

June 30, 2021

Poynter Staff

Military Veterans in Journalism teams up with the Poynter Institute and Craig Newmark Philanthropies to provide vets with critical journalism training, fellowships

New York (April 15, 2021): Military Veterans in Journalism (MVJ) and the Poynter Institute are…

April 15, 2021

Tina Dyakon

Poynter’s Power of Diverse Voices program elevates writers of color. Meet the Spring 2021 class.

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (March 25, 2021) – The Poynter Institute, a global leader in journalism…

March 25, 2021

Mel Grau

70% of US adults have taken at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine

Plus, people are getting vaccinated in secret, restaurants say they can't take another hit, 1 million doses have been wasted, and more.

August 3, 2021

Al Tompkins

Going deeper on the Massachusetts COVID outbreak that led to the CDC’s mask reversal

Plus, pediatric ICU beds are filling but not all from COVID, FDA pushing to get full vaccine approval, lines are forming for vaccines again, and more.

August 2, 2021

Al Tompkins

The worrying new data that forced the CDC to reverse mask guidelines

Plus, Biden tells federal workers to get vaccinated, whether the government could require everyone to do so, how people respond to mandates, and more.

July 30, 2021

Al Tompkins

Biden will tell federal employees today to get vaccinated or get tested weekly

Plus, federal offices and facilities order masks back, cities and states take action, how to know whether to wear a mask indoors, and more.

July 29, 2021

Al Tompkins

The usual professional trollers are criticizing Simone Biles’ decision

Let’s remind ourselves that no one has committed more energy, time and sweat to Simone Biles’ Olympic dreams than … Simone Biles.

July 29, 2021

Tom Jones

What makes vaccine skeptics change their minds?

Here are some of the main motivators for people who were opposed to taking the COVID-19 vaccine to change their minds.

July 29, 2021

Al Tompkins

Should we even be COVID testing people who are asymptomatic?

Plus, monthslong waits for commercial driver's licenses, the great rental car shotrtage, the case for PCR testing at home this winter, and more.

July 28, 2021

Al Tompkins

How to write with honesty in the plain style

It’s a middle ground between an ornate high style and a low style that gravitates toward slang. Write in it when you want your audience to comprehend.

July 27, 2021

Roy Peter Clark

Teach students to get beyond the basic Google search

To add value to their reporting, journalism students should get familiar with databases like Nexis

June 8, 2021

Barbara Gray

Four digital tools that got me through the pandemic

A year of long days and little time forced this editor to whittle down his toolkit to only the technology that was necessary.

March 22, 2021

Ren LaForme

Is Substack the panacea local news is looking for?

Local newsrooms have some competition — their own best beat reporters

March 3, 2021

Elizabeth Djinis

Opinions on Big Tech have grown worse, new Gallup poll finds

The companies were defined in the poll as ‘technology companies, such as Amazon, Facebook and Google.’

February 18, 2021

Amaris Castillo

No, Georgia did not ban discussion of race in schools

There’s a lot of talk about critical race theory, also known as CRT, across the…

July 20, 2021

Loren Miranda

Instagram stat about pregnancies and vaccines needs context

As more Americans get COVID-19 vaccinations, misinformation about their side effects has popped up all…

July 19, 2021

Ian Fox

No, using your phone while it’s charging won’t send electric waves through your body

Chances are, you’ve used your phone while it was charging. It might even be plugged…

May 25, 2021

Carly Dutcher

Did a 1997 Archie comic predict virtual school in 2021?

While most of us couldn’t have ever imagined some of the events that took place…

May 25, 2021

Ian Fox

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