March 4, 2010

The Windsor Star quoted Poynter’s Rick Edmonds in an article about Rupert Murdoch’s plans to charge for online news:

” ‘The track record shows that Rupert Murdoch is nothing if not bold,’ said Rick Edmonds, a media business analyst at the Poynter Institute, a non-profit journalism school based in Florida. ‘I don’t think it’s entirely surprising for him to be leading the way.’ 

Frequently accused in the past of promoting tabloid journalism, Murdoch is ‘sometimes villified for the wrong reasons,’ according to Edmonds. ‘There’s quite a degree of respect for him as an operator.’ ” 

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Bill Mitchell is the former CEO and publisher of the National Catholic Reporter. He was editor of Poynter Online from 1999 to 2009. Before joining…
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