ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., Oct. 27, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Poynter Institute is launching a partnership with PolitiFact, the Pulitzer Prize-winning website of the St. Petersburg Times, to create the PolitiFact Lab, an initiative that will oversee joint projects and educational programs on fact-checking.
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The PolitiFact Lab at The Poynter Institute will promote best practices in accountability journalism, conduct research on fact-checking and work with PolitiFact on new ventures. Poynter, a non-profit educational institution, will seek support for the programs from foundations and other underwriters.
The partnership will be modeled after the success of joint programs that Poynter and PolitiFact created in 2010 for PolitiFact Florida, a unique partnership of the Times, The Miami Herald and other Florida newspapers. It was underwritten by grants from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, the Collins Center for Public Policy and the Craigslist Charitable Fund.
About The Poynter Institute
Founded in 1975 in St. Petersburg, Fla., The Poynter Institute is one of the nation's top schools for professional journalists and news media leaders, as well as future journalists, journalism teachers and the general public. Poynter offers training throughout the year in the areas of online and multimedia, leadership and management, reporting, writing and editing, TV and radio, ethics and diversity, journalism education and visual journalism. Poynter's News University (www.newsu.org) offers journalism training to the public through more than 200 interactive modules and other forms of e-learning. Poynter's Web site, (www.poynter.org) is the dominant provider of journalism news, with a focus on business analysis and the opportunities and implications of technology.
About PolitiFact
PolitiFact.com was launched in 2007 to fact-check the presidential campaign. In 2009, the site began fact-checking pundits and talk show hosts and created a new feature, the Obameter, to track President Obama's 500-plus campaign promises. The website has received numerous awards, including the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting. The site is a product of the St. Petersburg Times, Florida's largest newspaper, with an average circulation of 429,048 Sunday and 292,441 daily (ABC FAS-FAX March 2011). Considered one of the top ten newspapers in the country, the St. Petersburg Times has eight Pulitzer Prizes to its name.
CONTACT:
Butch Ward
The Poynter Institute
bward@poynter.org
Bill Adair
PolitiFact
adair@politifact.com
SOURCE The Poynter Institute/News University
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