It was kind of an accident. When Lisa Tobin arrived at The New York Times nearly seven months ago, she had a broad mission: Figure out what the newspaper was supposed to sound like.…
This article is part of an ongoing series on digital tools for journalists. We’ve spent the past few weeks talking about…
There were five huge boxes sitting at the loading dock of The Poynter Institute yesterday, waiting for the FedEx truck to…
About six months ago, we bought a drone to help us cover stories at the Yakima Herald-Republic, a daily newspaper in…
We in the media love nicknames for notorious people. Often, these names are associated with a place or thing that has…
Good morning. Program changes are same old The swashbuckling Murdochs now look as milquetoast as old media rivals whom they upended…
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Poynter on Thursday announced a final list of 21 local news organizations that will participate in the Poynter Local News Innovation…
A few months ago, staff at The Minneapolis Star Tribune did something journalists don’t always have the time to do: think…
Editor’s note: This article was previously published on Medium. The author is the executive director of LION Publishers, a national network…
“O’Reilly Factor” host Bill O’Reilly has been ousted from Fox News amid a growing furor over sexual harassment allegations and multiple…
Even special dispensation from Pope Francis probably won’t save Bill O’Reilly. O’Reilly was in a VIP line at the Vatican on…
Last summer Betsy O’Donovan, the incoming Executive Director of The Daily Tar Heel, wrote an essay on Medium charting the dire…
Americans are highly aware that President Trump and the media have locked swords, and nearly three-quarters think those tensions are suppressing…
Every time you watch TV, listen to radio, open a web site or read a newspaper, magazine or book, someone is…
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Journalism has a trust problem. In the run-up to the 2016 election, a Gallup poll revealed Americans’ trust in the press…
When Nicole Dahmen opened her Sunday paper early last month, she found something she wasn’t expecting. On Feb. 12, The (Eugene,…
With so many respected newsrooms still adjusting to having the president call them “enemy of the American people,” next week’s announcement…
This profile originally appeared in The Cohort, Poynter’s bi-monthly newsletter about women kicking ass in digital media. It’s no secret that…
Every editor must learn to fix stories, but fixing is not the same as coaching. Coaching is the human side of…
Good morning. Here’s our morning roundup of all the media news you need to know. Want to get this briefing in…
The basic format of political fact-checking is identical the world over: Start from a widely circulated claim by a public figure,…
Facebook and other platform companies publishing news are forces for bad journalism not good, despite some well-intended efforts lately to help…
President Trump has repeatedly threatened to change U.S. libel law to crack down on news organizations that publish information he finds…
“Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground,” said Teddy Roosevelt. If the Washington Post is to…
The Portland (Maine) Press Herald is not the first local news organization to do a big project on the heroin epidemic.…
