Poynter on the Record

The (Abu Dhabi) National quotes Poynter's Tom Huang
“It’s a way for them to deflect legitimate questions,” said Tom Huang, an editor at The Dallas Morning News and a fellow at the Poynter Institute in Florida.

But there is another reason candidates do it: it resonates with voters.

MSN MoneyCentral quotes Poynter's Rick Edmonds
Few papers have managed to win significant concessions from their unions or have done so this publicly. Employees are recognizing now that their options are limited, said Rick Edmonds, media business analyst with the journalism think tank Poynter Institute.

kaisenlog.com writes about Poynter's Al Tompkins

“[The] increasingly blurred line between
journalism and rumor is a serious concern for Al Tompkins, the
broadcast/online group leader at The Poynter Institute — a specialized
school for journalists of all media forms.

Poynter's Kelly McBride quoted in newspaperblog.ca
“It’s hard to articulate a standard that would give you the opportunity to reject something like the ‘Obsession’ DVD but allow other types of political, religious or anti-religious speech,” Kelly McBride of the Poynter Institute told the Associated Press.

PCWorld.com quotes Poynter's Al Tompkins

That increasingly blurred line between journalism and rumor is a serious concern for Al Tompkins, the broadcast/online group leader at The Poynter Institute -- a specialized school for journalists of all media forms.

"How could you possibly allow just anybody to post just anything under your label unless you have blazing billboards that say, 'None of this has been verified, we've not looked at any of this, we have no idea if this is true'?" he asks.

International Herald Tribune quotes Poynter's Kelly McBride
Kelly McBride, head of the ethics faculty at the journalism think tank Poynter Institute, said papers generally reject ads only if they promote illegal activity or might incite violence. The "Obsession" DVD, at most, makes people angry, she said.

Computer World quotes Poynter's Ellyn Angelotti
While many news sites using citizen journalists filter comments or posts from citizen before they go live, CNN does not, said Ellyn Angelotti, interactivity editor and adjunct faculty member at the Poynter Institute, a school for journalists and journalist professors.

The main goal of CNN iReport "is to really empower citizens to be the reporters," she said Friday. "They don't want to be that filter the way that some news organizations feel is important. Citizen journalists can't exist without real journalists out there to fact check and provide sense out of these flood of information."

International Herald Tribune quotes Poynter's Kelly McBride
Kelly McBride, head of the ethics department at the Poynter Institute, a journalism training center in Florida, said, "Obviously the book will be much more valuable to her if Obama is elected." Still, she said, "I don't necessarily see an absolute conflict of interest, it's not like it's his biography."

jpdigitaldigest quotes Poynter's Ellyn Angelotti
Poynter Online recently published a list of ten exciting innovations in the news tech market.

Ellyn Angelotti compiled her chart during the recent Online News Association (ONA) conference and here are some highlights from her post “Taking Back 10 Emerging Technologies from ONA”:

The New York Times quotes Poynter's Kelly McBride
Kelly McBride, head of the ethics department at Poynter Institute, a journalism training center in Florida, said, “Obviously the book will be much more valuable to her if Obama is elected.” Still, she said, “I don’t necessarily see an absolute conflict of interest, it’s not like it’s his biography.”

oregononline.com quotes Poynter's Kelly McBride
Newspapers are attacked for accepting a variety of ads deemed offensive to some, including ads from gun sellers, adult clubs and Holocaust deniers, who ran a full-page ad in The New York Times, said Kelly McBride, an ethics specialist at The Poynter Institute, a school for journalists. Newspapers see themselves as defenders of free speech, she said, and that defense extends to their ad columns.