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Once a civic monument, The Kansas City Star’s $200 million presses and ‘pavilion’ have been sold and abandoned

The glass, eight-story former beacon of print journalism may soon become a facility that produces paper bags.

Where are the Black Friday ads? Why Thanksgiving newspapers will look lighter this year.

It's a bleak Thanksgiving for print ads … and 2021 looks rocky as well.

Here are the newsroom layoffs, furloughs and closures caused by the coronavirus

We're updating this list almost daily

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From The Cohort, Poynter's newsletter for women kicking ass in digital media

It’s time to hold editors accountable for harassed news workers

If you are an editor, publisher or general manager, what, if anything, do you do when employees, especially women, are harassed online?

Journalists pushed for progress, stood up to bullies and made sense of a pandemic. Here’s what we’re thankful for this year.

A special Thanksgiving edition of the Poynter Report from Tom Jones

Should Fox News be worried about Trump supporters turning to Newsmax?

The network has become a favorite of President Donald Trump’s Twitter feed, while he occasionally claims Fox News isn't what it used to be.

Is the increase in Black representation in magazines hypocrisy or a genuine change?

And why do some magazine editors and public relations directors not want to talk about the sea change that has taken place in the industry?

Professors, consider volunteering in a local newsroom during the winter break

Student media is a lifesaver, and The New York Times wants you to send them your best coronavirus work

I spent 2020 teaching first-time voters how to tell fact from fiction online

The experience taught me the value of peer-to-peer training and reinforced fact-based expression's important role in a democracy

Why an investigative team might be right for your student publication

One editor at Lehigh University’s student newsroom shares advice for getting started with more in-depth work

How four student newspapers covered a rollercoaster election week

Election Day stretched into election week, and student journalists covered it all while juggling schoolwork and working remotely.

Journalism can help communities with these five pillars of ethical disaster reporting

News stories about disasters should frame the impacts of environmental phenomena in meaningful ways

Unfinished business from reporting on 2020’s presidential results — there’s lots of it

At fault: Off-the-mark polling, a voting population that defies prediction and transparency around vote calling rendered opaque by wonkiness.

Why does everyone trust the Associated Press for calling races?

TL;DR more than a century of history

The art of the concession speech

The most important part isn't if the candidate accepts defeat, one historian found, but if his or her followers do

The fact-based approach to keeping the coronavirus out of your Thanksgiving

Small indoor gatherings are driving a record surge of coronavirus cases. Public health officials are worried about the holiday season accelerating it.

Jack Dorsey and Mark Zuckerberg at a crossroads on their companies’ misinformation policies

IFCN · Dorsey y Zuckerberg van al Senado y adoptan argumentos similares Jack Dorsey and…

Global fact-checkers find strength in numbers amid dual challenges of politics and COVID-19

This is the November 19, 2020 edition of Factually

A screenshot of a Parler post about Tucker Carlson leaving Fox News is fake

The fake screenshot shows Tucker Carlson announcing he'll 'be starting at NewsMax next month.'

It’s time to apply for Poynter’s 2021 Leadership Academy for Women in Media. Here’s what you need to know.

Updated on Oct. 27 Now in its seventh year, the Poynter Leadership Academy for Women…

Meet the third cohort of Poynter’s 2020 Leadership Academy for Women in Media

The third of three classes will take place digitally in October with a keynote from Charo Henríquez of The New York Times.

Poynter to honor Chris Wallace at its fundraising gala

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (Sept. 23, 2020) – Chris Wallace, the award-winning broadcast journalist, best-selling author…

Poynter’s International Fact-Checking Network launches the first-ever coalition of major U.S. fact-checkers to debunk misinformation in English and Spanish

The project, FactChat, lead to the creation of a WhatsApp chatbot and two Spanish-language fact-checking units

Falsehoods about the 2020 election run rampant on the world stage

Fact-checkers outside the United States were not spared the onslaught of both mis- and disinformation…

Brazilian election: Fact-checkers detected 16 electoral hoaxes in 48 hours, a third of the total registered in 2018

It is clear that the attacks against the election will keep happening — just like it does in other countries

The CoronaVirusFacts Alliance will get specialized support from the Paris Peace Forum

The 11-member scale-up committee will help the alliance build on the successes of the largest global fact-checking collaboration in history.

The CoronaVirusFacts Alliance gets a global showcase at the Paris Peace Forum

The alliance was one of 100 projects selected as a potential solution for peace

How local journalists are covering a Thanksgiving drastically impacted by COVID-19

Thanksgiving doesn’t look the same across America this year. Neither does the local news coverage.

100 years after the Ocoee Massacre, a local TV station is telling the story

‘If we’re not bringing these stories forward, we have to ask ourselves as news organizations, why not?’

The San Antonio Express-News will move buildings

The newspaper, owned by Hearst, will hire 10 more journalists after 11 took recent voluntary buyouts

About 500 people are taking buyouts at Gannett

The offer, extended to all of Gannett's 21,000 employees, was first introduced in October

As recruiting begins for the Media Transformation Challenge Program at Poynter, the executive fellowship program itself transforms

The 2021 Fellows will begin the program online with a new executive director, a more…

Meet the second cohort of Poynter’s 2020 Leadership Academy for Women in Media

The second of three classes will convene digitally in September for intensive leadership training, kicked off by NPR’s Korva Coleman.

Poynter and The Washington Post announce members of the 2020-21 Leadership Academy for Diversity in Digital Media

Meet the 2020-21 Poynter-Koch Media and Journalism Fellows

More than 50 emerging journalists, representing some of the biggest names in journalism, are participating in the yearlong career accelerator program.

The CDC will meet this week to discuss who will be first to be vaccinated

Plus, the countries that'll get vaccines first, the Oxford-AstraZeneca controversy explained, New York schools are ditching hybrid learning, and more.

Will journalists be considered front-line workers for COVID-19 vaccines?

Plus, what 635 epidemiologists plan to do for Thanksgiving, 162 state legislators have had COVID-19, and more.

The great divide: whether to require masks in schools

Plus, the flu season isn't too bad (so far), scrubbing is next to futile, there's a shortage of people to run ventilators, and more.

The possible first day of COVID-19 vaccinations is Dec. 12

Plus, who will get vaccines first, nursing homes are in peril, non-COVID nursing home deaths are rising, and more.

Happy 100th anniversary to the poem that every writer needs to know

‘The Second Coming,’ by the Irish poet William Butler Yeats, offers many lessons in a year in which the world seems to be falling apart.

Here come the COVID-19 car repos

Plus, surgical glove supplies are tight, an outbreak on a Navy destroyer, the CDC says 'stay home' for Thanksgiving, and more.

12 writing tools to make COVID-19 coverage comprehensible. One stands above the rest.

A dozen tips to give people what they need to make safe decisions and about their health and confidence in their knowledge about the COVID-19 pandemic

Nurses, stretched thin and without protective equipment, are striking nationwide

Plus, the thousands of travel ICU nurses, data pried from the coronavirus task force, vaccinated people will still need to wear masks, and more.

How to choose a membership platform

What management platform is best for your newsroom? Here are six to consider.

Have a smart speaker? Try asking, ‘Who is Stacey Abrams?’

If you have Amazon’s Alexa, the Georgia politician reads her own bio

38+ tools and resources to improve Zoom, follow the election and to make your autumn a bit easier

Including a tool that automatically transcribes Zoom calls, a tool to make it feel like you're back in the office and an animated headshot generator.

Here are some digital tools for a more productive — and fun — summer

A special edition of the Try This! — Tools for Journalism newsletter written by Jeremy Caplan from CUNY’s Newmark Grad School of Journalism.

TFCN Fact-check: Was this wall installed at the White House on Election Day?

This week, MediaWise’s Teen Fact-Checking Network took on a claim about a suspicious barrier allegedly…

TFCN Roundup: Is Sharpiegate legit? Did Melania Trump vote twice?

This week, MediaWise’s Teen Fact-Checking Network took on six claims, focusing on the presidential election,…

TFCN Roundup: Did Trump call to stop counts where he leads, but not where Biden does?

This week, the Teen Fact Checking Network took on seven claims, focusing hard on the 2020 Presidential Election, President Donald Trump and former Vic

TFCN Roundup: Did Democrat senators meet without masks?

This week, the Teen Fact-Checking Network covered the 2020 presidential election and coronavirus with four…