by Sydney Smith on Mar 19, 2014
3 Journalism Ethics Workshops in India Hosted by Poynter
The U.S. Poynter Institute announced this week it is holding journalism ethics workshops in three cities in India this month....
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by Rhonda Roland Shearer on Nov 21, 2013
PoynterOnline.org is now a Spam Blog
The PoynterOnline.org URL has been degraded into an “All Technology News” spam blog. Unbeknownst to the Poynter Institute, a prestigious...
by Sydney Smith on Apr 02, 2012
Journalism Prof Questions When Students Skip Class to ‘Do Journalism’
Journalism professor Herbert Lowe discussed how to handle students skipping class to "do journalism" in a recent post for Poynter....
by Sydney Smith on Jan 19, 2012
Plagiarism Discussion on Salon
Salon questioned "What is plagiarism" in a "panel debate" that included Harvard Law School professor Jonathan Zittrain, Southern Methodist University...
by Alan Behr on Nov 21, 2011
L’Affaire Romenesko: A Legal Perspective on Plagiarism and Copyright
Editor's Note : Editor's Note: Jim Romenesko's Nov. 10 resignation from Poynter over his failure to put quotation marks around...
by Sydney Smith on Nov 11, 2011
Poynter: Romenesko Blog has “Incomplete Attribution,” Romenesko Resigns
The Poynter Institute announced Nov. 10 that the originality of and attribution in aggregator/blogger Jim Romenesko's posts has been called...
by Corinne Segal on Jun 15, 2011
Poynter’s Julie Moos: “Checkbook journalism” makes media less credible
Julie Moos, director of Poynter Online and Poynter Publications, argued that paying sources under the guise of "licensing fees" is...
by Sydney Smith on Jun 07, 2011
What to do “When Crime Victims Tweet”
Poynter's Mallary Jean Tenore highlighted the "difficult questions for journalists" prompted by a Florida woman's tweets reporting her own rape....
by Sydney Smith on Mar 28, 2011
Why didn’t Poynter Disclose It’s Being Paid in ESPN-Ombudsman Position?
Kelly McBride's first column as part of the Poynter Review Project for ESPN is out. (See here.) But, Poynter and...
by Sydney Smith on Feb 25, 2011
Poynter Will Be Paid in ESPN Ombudsmen Deal, Q & A
Yesterday, ESPN and Poynter announced that they are working together on something called "The Poynter Review Project." However, the press...