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Dear ,
As the summer rolls in, Poynter’s programs are ramping up.
Please take a moment to review our exciting initiatives taking place over the next few months. Our reach and impact continue to expand, in the United States and around the world.
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Deborah Read and Andrew DeLong |
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Deborah Read
Chief Development Officer
The Poynter Institute |
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Andrew DeLong
Community Events Specialist
The Poynter Institute |
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| Our annual celebration of journalism is on November 16 |
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| On November 16, Bowtie Ball attendees will break out their bowties (or bowtie accessories) to celebrate the impactful work of Poynter and the work of a leading journalist in our field. (Graphic by Chris Kozlowski) |
The Poynter Institute’s Bowtie Ball is an annual celebration of our work in service to democracy. We also honor an accomplished journalist with the Poynter Medal for Lifetime Achievement in Journalism. If you’ve ever joined us for this first-class event, you know firsthand it brings to life the work Poynter does everyday.
This year’s event will be held at the Hilton Tampa Downtown on Saturday, November 16, 2024. Our next honoree will be announced soon. Previous recipients of the Poynter Medal for Lifetime Achievement in Journalism include Anderson Cooper, Carl Bernstein, Bob Woodward, Lesley Stahl, Chris Wallace, Katie Couric, Lester Holt, Judy Woodruff, Tom Brokaw and Bob Schieffer.
Tickets will go on sale in the coming months. If you’d like to be alerted when tickets are available for purchase, please sign up here. |
| Poynter connects with leaders in Philadelphia |
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| Brian Tierney, vice chair of The Poynter Foundation, addresses the crowd at Poynter’s Bowtie Ball in 2023. (Photo by Chris Zuppa) |
| Philadelphia is home to Brian Tierney, vice chair of The Poynter Foundation Inc. Tierney and his team at Brian Communications recently hosted Poynter’s president Neil Brown and chief development officer Deborah Read and provided opportunities to meet with executives at Philly’s top companies. The visit concluded with a reception on the rooftop of the iconic, landmark building that houses Brian Communications. A special thanks to Brian and his colleague, McKenna Young, for their tireless efforts in support of Poynter. |
| Journalism’s leaders come to Poynter for training |
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| Poynter recently welcomed 30 women into the Leadership Academy for Women in Media in May at our headquarters in St. Petersburg, Florida. The women are from 14 different states and three countries. (Photo by Chris Kozlowski) |
It’s always inspiring to share updates from our Leadership Academy for Women in Media. In May, we welcomed our second cohort to Poynter this year. A previous cohort met in March and another will convene in September. Participants for all three groups were selected at the same time and placed into a specific cohort designed to generate rich and diverse group dynamics. Including these 30 participants, Poynter will train more than 90 newsroom leaders through this transformative program in 2024, and increase the alumni network for this program to more than 600.
Over the course of their week with us in May, these women strengthened their leadership skills and connected deeply with each other.
“The leadership academy has evolved in scope over close to a decade, but one thing remains the same,” academy director Kate Cox said. “Every incoming cohort is a real-time reflection of how healthy newsrooms are, what they need, and how well they’re serving their audiences right now.”
If you’d like to make a contribution to help a journalist take the program, please go to poynter.org/give and reference the Women’s Leadership program in the notes field. If you’d like to send a check, reply to this email. |
| Poynter to convene fact-checkers in Sarajevo |
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| Poynter will welcome hundreds of fact-checkers to Sarajevo June 26-28 for Global Fact. (Graphic by Chris Kozlowski) |
| Presented by the International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN) at the Poynter Institute in partnership with ZaštoNe, GlobalFact 11 will empower fact-checkers to uphold the industry’s highest standards of excellence through training and networking events with globally renowned fact-checking experts. Journalist and Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Ressa will be a featured keynote speaker at GlobalFact. She’ll be joined by experts in journalism, democracy, artificial intelligence and debunking online misinformation. Other speakers at the fact-checking summit include Steve Levitsky, Nikita Roy, Craig Silverman and more. You can sign up to attend online or in-person here. |
| Poynter’s experts explore the latest in artificial intelligence |
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| Listen in as Poynter’s AI experts, Katie Sanders, Tony Elkins and Alex Mahadevan, discuss the latest technological developments. (Screenshot) |
If you missed Poynter’s conversation with Katie Sanders, Tony Elkins and Alex Mahadevan about artificial intelligence (AI), it’s not too late to watch the recording here. As you hear more and more about AI in the news daily, turn to our experts at Poynter for the most up-to-date information.
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