Poynter Institute

The Poynter Institute (Poynter) is an educational institution and research center that offers professional development opportunities for reporters and convenes events that address critical issues concerning the state of journalism. Founded in 1975, Poynter helps journalists sharpen skills and improve storytelling throughout their careers. This grant enables Poynter to continue to develop and present trainings to reporters from local and national journalism outlets, aimed at providing them with the understanding, practical skills, and access to sources they need in order to report effectively on local criminal justice systems and jail overuse. The results of the grant include more in-depth and nuanced media coverage of local criminal justice systems, and a public that is better informed regarding the need for reform. 

The Poynter Institute (Poynter) is an educational institution and research center that offers professional development opportunities for reporters and convenes events that address critical issues concerning the state of journalism. This grant enables Poynter to continue to develop and present trainings to reporters from local and national journalism outlets, aimed at providing them with the understanding, practical skills, and access to sources they need in order to report effectively on local criminal justice systems and jail overuse. The results of the grantinclude more in-depth and nuanced media coverage of local criminal justice systems, and a public that is better informed regarding the need for reform.

The Poynter Institute (Poynter) is an educational institution and research center that offers professional development opportunities for reporters and convenes events that address critical issues concerning the state of journalism. This grant enables Poynter to continue to offer regional workshops for reporters from local and national outlets, aimed at providing them with the practical skills, technical assistance, and access to sources they need in order to report effectively on local criminal justice systems and jail overuse. MacArthur funds would support staff and consultant costs for developing and organizing the trainings, convening expenses, and travel and lodging for the participating experts and reporters. The result of this grant would be that news outlets (in localities that are part of the Safety and Justice Challenge Network and beyond) will have more tools, resources, and capacity to produce in-depth and nuanced reportage on their local criminal justice systems.

The Poynter Institute (Poynter) is an educational institution and research center that offers professional development opportunities for reporters and convenes events that address critical issues concerning the state of journalism. This award enables Poynter to design and convene a series of regional workshops for reporters from local and national outlets, aimed at providing them with the practical skills, technical assistance, and access to sources they need in order to report effectively on local criminal justice systems and jail overuse. Poynter is also creating an on-line training course based on the regional workshops, and making it available via its “News University” platform. By giving reporters the tools, resources, and capacity to produce in-depth and nuanced news stories on their local criminal justice systems, the project serves to increase public awareness of the problem of jail misuse and overuse, stimulate interest in and demand for solutions, and contribute to momentum for change.

The Poynter Institute (Poynter) is an educational institution and research center that offers professional development opportunities for reporters and convenes events that address critical issues concerning the state of journalism. Poynter is planning a one-day Mobile News Summit during the fall of2015 in New York City to convene news executives, social media experts, researchers and digital technologists to explore opportunities and challenges presented to journalists by mobile devices. The Summit will share emerging knowledge about how to most effectively think about mobile devices as tools for both the production and consumption of news.