Poynter Summer Fellowship: 2007 Participants
They arrived on June 3. They came from as far away as the Pacfic Northwest and as close as the other side of Tampa Bay. There are 32 of them; 16 writers, 8 photographers and 8 designers. They’re all...
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A week-long seminar at Poynter costs about $1,000. Most participants say you get your money’s worth. But some journalists just don’t have the money, or the time. On Monday, you can get an hour with...
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By Pat WaltersContributors: Jeremy Gilbert News organizations are dealing with comments in a number of different ways. We looked at three newspaper Web sites, a news aggregator and a radio program Web...
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On the Sunday before Memorial Day, the St. Petersburg Times ran “A Story for Jake.” As it turns out, the story, an epic of heroism and heartbreak, is really for all of us. It’s for those of us who...
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Two months ago, a television weatherman from Tampa, Fla., killed himself. John Winter, a WFLA meteorologist, had established himself over 13 years as a familiar, friendly face in the morning and a...
View ArticlePoynter Summer Fellowship: 2007 Participants
They arrived on June 3. They came from as far away as the Pacific Northwest and as close as the other side of Tampa Bay. There are 32 of them; 16 writers, eight photographers and eight designers....
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Some of them have Pulitzers, Emmys, Peabodys. Some are in their 20s. A handful of them are in bands, and many of them have traveled the world. One of them even wore the San Diego Chicken on his head...
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1. Get into admin mode. At the top right-hand corner of the page, in the “Poynteronline” header bar, click “LOGIN.” Enter your username and password. In the header bar, click “POYNTER ADMIN.” (NOTE:...
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About a week ago, my editor and I started a Facebook group. We had been reading a lot about Facebook, mostly about how “old” people had launched an invasion on the site. My editor, Bill Mitchell, is...
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