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Poynter is a nonprofit media institute and newsroom that provides fact-checking, media literacy and journalism ethics training to citizens and journalists in service to democracy.
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Mail ballots usually take longer to count. This could lead to delays in declaring a winner in battleground states in the presidential race, possibly making “election night” more like “election week.”
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Best practices for covering mass shootings:
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The #Pulitzer for explanatory reporting was awarded to David Barstow, Susanne Craig and Russ Buettner of @nytimes for an investigation of President Trump’s finances that exposed the president’s persistent tax dodging
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Nikole Hannah-Jones: "If newsroom managers wanted diverse newsrooms, they’d have diverse newsrooms."
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Experts are urging media outlets to continually explain the realities of mail-in voting and maintain transparency about the vote count in order to head off conspiracy theories about the validity of the vote.
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The Pulitzer Prizes routinely honor lots of journalism from U.S. news centers like New York and Washington, D.C. But in 2023, much of the best work, according to the Pulitzer Board, was set in the 24th most populous state — Alabama.
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Today's an unwelcome reminder that journalism is difficult and dangerous work
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The journalist who won the Charleston Gazette-Mail’s first Pulitzer still does a monthly night cops shift
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Instagram debuts discover for Web, which can help publishers find user-generated content: http://t.co/iNIiOCmplc http://t.co/v0ljuS49n2
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From @Michael_Bugeja : The backlash against CNN’s town hall with former President Donald Trump is a lesson for outlets that cotton to a particular political psychographic and then abandon it, failing to retain regular viewers while divining for new ones.
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Mother Jones is raising $500,000 to go after the Trump-Russia story:
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Newsrooms often don’t tell job applicants that they didn’t get the gig. Some say it’s just the way things are. Others say it raises an intriguing question: In an industry built on communication, why is timely communication difficult to come by?
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so true, bestie
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one of my favorite sounds ever is the sound of a crisp new newspaper being read over breakfast for an hour or so… The popping out of it, the folding, the scribbling on the crossword… I hope it never goes out of fashion in our digital world. It is too romantic. 🗞️♥️
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President Joe Biden used the words “truth,” “facts” and “lies” nine times in his inaugural address to highlight the crisis of disinformation and misinformation as an attack on the fundamentals of America’s democracy and national character.
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Announcements thread: The #Pulitzer for public service was awarded to the @SunSentinel for exposing the failures of school and law enforcement officials before and during the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida:
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Tiny, family-run newspaper wins Pulitzer Prize for taking on big business:
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NYT corrects: Ivanka Trump is the president's daughter, not his wife:
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Update: Since Meryl Streep's speech, @pressfreedom has received more than 1,000 donations totaling more than $60,000
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This tale of an underdog newspaper winning a Pulitzer was our most-read story of 2017.
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Reports to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System are not verified before they're entered into the database. That makes VAERS fertile ground for vaccine misinformation.
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TONIGHT: Anderson Cooper prepares to receive the Poynter Medal for Lifetime Achievement. 🏅
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The #Pulitzer for national reporting was awarded to @WSJ for uncovering President Donald Trump’s secret payoffs, during his campaign, to women who claimed to have had affairs with him
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AP style change: Singular they is acceptable ‘in limited cases’ "It's about time."
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Chris Christie said he didn’t go to the beach. Then, a newspaper showed him the pictures:
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We owe it to our audiences to report on suicide in ways that don't cause further harm.
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Congrats to @nytimes and @NewYorker for winning the #PulitzerPrize for public service for their coverage of the sexual abuse of women in Hollywood and other industries around the world.
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The @capgaznews will receive a special citation for its heroic ability to continue to publish after a shooter entered its newsroom and killed five newsroom staffers. The #Pulitzer Foundation will make a $100,000 donation to the Gazette to expand its journalism.
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40 time-tested tips for journalists that never go out of style
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The list of media workers who have died from COVID-19 includes newspaper owners, cameramen, broadcast pioneers, writers, retirees, young parents. Many of them got sick while informing their communities about the pandemic.
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Five years ago, the @denverpost took this photo after winning the @PulitzerPrizes - now, under a new owner, this is who's left. Read about the 'destroyer of newspapers' in today's @Poynter media roundup Image via @ByRosenberg , story by @NoceraBV
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Vanity Fair added 13,000 subscribers within a day of Donald Trump's troll-y tweet:
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We've had an amazing amount of reaction to this piece about some courageous reporting by @CNN :
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Reminder: Get the name AND the breed of the dog right.
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Journalists who are told that interview requests “must” go through a public-relations officer should insist on actually seeing the written policy that makes approval mandatory.
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. @davidaxelrod had been waiting 20 years to ask @BarackObama this question.
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“This is actually trying to control the collective memory of this country,” Nikole Hannah-Jones told CNN. “And trying to say we just want to purge uncomfortable truths from our collective memory. And that’s very dangerous.”
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The Newseum is selling MAGA hats and 'fake news' T-shirts
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"The truth is that journalism is a brutal profession with constant layoffs, stagnant wages and long hours, yet somehow, in your mind, this is elitism."
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. @craignewmark gives $1 million to ProPublica:
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The board also honored the career and work of singer, songwriter, pianist and civil rights activist Aretha Franklin, who died Aug. 16, 2018. Artists such as Bob Dylan and Hank Williams have been honored with similar #Pulitzers awards in the past.
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Did Melania Trump plagiarize? Yes. Here's a flowchart.
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Did @chicagotribune just have its own Aleppo moment?
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Editors changed stories to “muddy the waters” on who was responsible for the Capitol attack and gave orders to not refer to the rioters as Trump supporters, the Toledo NewsGuild president said.
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On Sunday front pages, women around the country come "out in force" #WomensMarch
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"No president gets to jail journalists."
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This column by Eugene Patterson, then editor of the Atlanta Constitution, was originally published in that paper on September 16, 1963 and was read aloud that night on the “CBS Evening News” with Walter Cronkite.
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Here are some of Rob Hiaasen's favorite lessons: • Find humanity in whatever you're writing. • Don't gild the lily — let the reporting shine, not the writing. • Above all: Are you doing the stories you love?
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The Capital Gazette front page, one year after the newsroom shooting that killed five.
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Our Twitter list of 119 journalists covering #Ferguson :
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The bravery of these @CNN journalists is unbelievable.
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"Finalist names before they settled on tronc: -bramp -flirp -scormf -ker-chonk"
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Want to go on a photo assignment for National Geographic? With Your Shot, you can.
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New: New York Times reporters plea for copy editor’s jobs in letter to bosses:
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On Sunday front pages around the U.S.: #WomensMarch
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In a week when the Biden administration worked to free a truth teller arrested in Russia, it doubled down on its commitment to punish another truth teller arrested in Western Europe: Julian Assange.
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The Washington Post will hire about 60 journalists, with most hires complete within the first quarter of 2017:
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🚨 Journalists can now use "they" as a singular pronoun 🚨
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Capital Gazette journalist: 'We are putting out a damn paper tomorrow.' Here it is
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Anna Wolfe of Mississippi Today won a Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting for an investigative series that uncovered new evidence into the extent of former Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant’s involvement in the state’s massive $77 million welfare scandal.
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Here are 28 ideas for covering President-elect Donald Trump
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So we already have a candidate for correction of the year...
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More than 500 journalists have died of the coronavirus in more than 57 countries. The list includes cameramen and writers, retirees and young parents. Many of them got sick while informing their communities about the pandemic.
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How newsrooms are using @Instagram as a community-building tool: http://t.co/VAe97EPPen How are you/your newsroom using it?
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26% of journalists surveyed have clinically significant anxiety compatible with the diagnosis of Generalized Anxiety Disorder which includes symptoms of worry, feeling on edge, insomnia, poor concentration and fatigue.
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>> Journalists are working night and day to keep us informed with the rapid and changing environment caused by COVID-19. They are #PRESSential workers. Make sure to #ThankAJourno for their commitment.
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The #Pulitzer for Audio Reporting is awarded to the staff of @Gimletmedia and @connie_walker for Stolen, an investigation of the St. Michael’s Indian Residential School and generations of abuse of Indigenous children by the priests and nuns running the school.
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"On Thursday, July 12, The Times will replace its slogan, Honestly Local, on the front-page masthead with Cook’s tweet. We invite all newspapers to do the same that day."
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It’s vital for journalists to seek out and interview people from all walks of life. But reporters also need to recognize their ethical duty to protect sources who lack the knowledge they need to protect themselves.
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The Crimson White aimed to create a COVID-19 dashboard that would reflect a more accurate count of cases and vaccination rates than the University of Alabama was reporting. Most of their public records requests were stonewalled.
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The Pulitzer for Audio Reporting is awarded to Lisa Hagen, Chris Haxel, Graham Smith and Robert Little of NPR for “No Compromise,” an investigative series on gun rights activists.
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As it marks its fifth anniversary, @BlockClubCHI has built a news staff larger than predecessor DNAinfo’s and accumulated almost 20,000 subscribers while becoming a major player on the local journalism scene.
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With front pages from each state in the U.S. and several countries around the world
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Here are Jim Lehrer’s nine rules for journalists
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The #Pulitzer for local reporting was awarded to @theadvocatebr staff for coverage of the state’s discriminatory conviction system that allowed courts to jail defendants without a jury’s consensus about guilt:
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This 98-year-old science editor is retiring from The San Francisco Chronicle after nearly 7 decades at the newspaper
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He left his day job, headed for the border, got out his long lens and took some of the first photographs of detained kids who had been separated from their parents through President Trump’s order against legal asylum-seekers and migrants.
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Thanks to all of our friends checking in. Just did a walk-through of our building — no major damage, no flooding and we still have power!
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Two parents who lost children in the Marjory Stoneman Douglas shootings wrote an open letter asking the Pulitzer Prize committee to recognize the Sun-Sentinel for its coverage of the shootings and its aftermath.
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Tell us: What's your favorite journalism movie?
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