This is a collection of memos and reports that I wrote during my time at The Poynter Institute for Media Studies. I joined Poynter in 2002 as its Presidential Scholar. This was a more like a consulting job. I traveled from Phoenix to St. Petersburg at least once a month and stayed for a week to 10 days. In 2003 I joined the Institute full-time to lead its efforts to create an e-learning site, News University. As Interactive Learning Director, I created, with lots of help, the world’s largest journalism-based online training program. As of 2014, there are more than 300,000 registered users on the site. I became Poynter’s director of partnerships and alliances [as known as business development] director in 2012. Some of these memos are also reflected in the “Analog to Digital” timeline, which is the heart of this project.
One of the first seminars I taught at was The Poynter Institute for Media Studies’ “Newspaper Design for the ’80s”. Here’s the invitation letter from Mario Garcia bio, associate director of Poynter. I had been at the Institute earlier as
Read more →Even before much of the foundation of Poynter's e-learning project was laid, we tested the concept of an online group seminar, thanks to the support of the Asian American Journalism Association and one of its most forward looking leaders, Mae Chang.
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I first came to Poynter as a visiting scholar, hired by the Institute’s president, Jim Naughton. This memo went to the National Advisory Board and Poynter staff ahead of its meeting, and it is Naughton making the case for distance
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I’ve have learned that when trying to create something new, it is helpful to draw a picture. Some folks learn by reading; others by looking at a picture. The site diagram of the 1st technology phase of Poynter’s e-learning project
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In celebration of Nelson Poynter’s 100th birthday, the entire Poynter Institute staff gathered for two staff photographs in 2003. The top photos is the traditional. The bottom photos has everyone wearing bow tie, a Nelson Poynter trademark. This photograph probably
Read more →Ideas for a Poynter conference to celebrate 10 years of Web-based news
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This is an interoffice memo I wrote at the Poynter Institute in January 2004, proposing a seminar to mark — and, more usefully, to learn from — the first 10 years of news on the Web. It went to Karen
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A two-page strategy document prepared for a Poynter Institute strategy session, dated January 15, 2004. It sets out the Institute’s mission and then four strategies, each with quarterly goals and named owners. The mission statement opens the document: Poynter is
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Part of the mission of Poynter’s News University was to provide research on the whether e-learning would be an effective method of training journalists. NewsU launched in April 2005 after a short beta period, with 1961 registered users. In April
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This is a piece that ran in the November 2007 issue of AEJMC News, built around testimonials the News University team collected from NewsU users at AEJMC’s 2007 conference. The idea was simple: rather than tell journalism educators that e-learning
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As part of the grant to The Poynter Institute for the creation and running of News University, an online training program, the Knight Foundation asked that we conduct studies as to how effective training was and better understand the training
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Poynter’s News University liked to celebrate its users and held a couple of contests to get compelling stories from its students. This document is a worksheet for those at Poynter who were tasked to pick the best stories. [The stars
Read more →Description of some of the NewsU site features in advance of meeting with technology providers
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