Who died and made Poynter an arbiter? Oh, Nelson Poynter, the founder of the respected St. Petersburg Times, did. In a well-meaning will, he foolishly funded this blowhard "media school" as the sole owner of the newspaper. The Poynter Institute, widely ridiculed among serious journalists, has been draining resources from the St. Pete Times for years, while maintaining the fiction that its ridiculous "faculty" are somehow arbiters of journalism practices and ethics. I wouldn't trust them to evaluate a police short.
On The Intolerable Evolution of Poynter's "Romenesko+"
Who died and made Poynter an arbiter? Oh, Nelson Poynter, the founder of the respected St. Petersburg Times, did. In a well-meaning will, he foolishly funded this blowhard "media school" as the sole owner of the newspaper. The Poynter Institute, widely ridiculed among serious journalists, has been draining resources from the St. Pete Times for years, while maintaining the fiction that its ridiculous "faculty" are somehow arbiters of journalism practices and ethics. I wouldn't trust them to evaluate a police short.