Poynter - poynter.org - Poynter.
General Information:
Latest News:
Schools superintendent accused of plagiarism in anti-Obama letter 27 Aug 2013 | 01:20 am
Billings Gazette | Cowgirl Blog Yellowstone County, Mont., schools superintendent Max Lenington plagiarized a column by Mychal Massie in an Aug. 25 letter to the editor, Massie tells Eddie Gregg of t...
Times-Shamrock puts several papers on the market 26 Aug 2013 | 10:24 pm
The Times-Tribune Times-Shamrock will put several daily papers and some alt-weeklies up for sale, the Times-Shamrock-owned (Scranton, Pa.) Times-Tribune reports. The dailies being marketed for sale ...
In its fashion magazine, New York Times quotes a profanity 26 Aug 2013 | 10:15 pm
Salon | Mother Jones The New York Times quoted the first line of Jonathan Lethem’s “Dissident Gardens” in its fashion magazine T this weekend: “Quit fucking black cops or get booted from the Communi...
NAHJ reconsiders its membership in Unity 26 Aug 2013 | 09:41 pm
Maynard Institute The National Association of Hispanic Journalists is re-evaluating its membership in Unity: Journalists for Diversity, Richard Prince reports. Student journalists at NAHJ’s conventi...
Pew: A third of people without broadband have a smartphone 26 Aug 2013 | 07:58 pm
Pew A Pew survey finds 70 percent of Americans have broadband at home. They tend to be better educated, better paid and younger than those who don’t. Only 3 percent of Americans, Pew found, have dial...
Plain Dealer readers will vote for charities to receive ‘editorial exposure,’ free advertising 26 Aug 2013 | 07:42 pm
The company that publishes The (Cleveland) Plain Dealer will send a ballot to subscribers Wednesday asking them to choose which of 50 local charities will receive “$1 million in free advertising in Th...
Dodgers owner on Los Angeles Times: ‘If the price were right, I would buy it’ 26 Aug 2013 | 07:07 pm
The Los Angeles Times Dodgers owner Mark Walter says he’s interested in buying the Los Angeles Times and the Chicago Tribune, “in part because he is interested in increasing the diversity and improvi...
Real-estate rich newspapers are finding it’s time to cash in 26 Aug 2013 | 05:56 pm
The newspaper industry continues to bleed print advertising revenues and circulation. Digital and other new ventures are growing, but not quickly enough to make up for the losses. The sale of real es...
Video drone crashes during Virginia running of the bulls 26 Aug 2013 | 05:52 pm
WTVR | The Washington Post | Columbia Daily Tribune A drone carrying a camera crashed into the grandstand at The Great Bull Run in Dinwiddie, Va., Saturday. The event promised to bring “the Spanish t...
Mark Thompson: Keeping Nate Silver at NYT was not ‘an overwhelming priority’ 24 Aug 2013 | 02:27 am
New York Joe Hagan’s look at New York Times Co. CEO Mark Thompson’s tenure so far contains many, many tweetable and chewable moments for New York Times obsessives — his presence in the newsroom “was ...
