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Poynter is a school for journalism and democracy. We train journalists. Home to the Poynter newsroom, @PolitiFact, @MediaWise & @FactCheckNet.
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    Nov 4, 2022
    Poynter is a nonprofit media institute and newsroom that provides fact-checking, media literacy and journalism ethics training to citizens and journalists in service to democracy. Poynter.org
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    Jun 23, 2021
    The United States ranks last in media trust — at 29% — among 92,000 news consumers surveyed in 46 countries.
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    US ranks last among 46 countries in trust in media, Reuters Institute report finds - Poynter
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    Oct 12, 2020
    Mail ballots usually take longer to count. This could lead to delays in declaring a winner in battleground states in the presidential race, possibly making “election night” more like “election week.”
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    Be patient on election night 2020. Counting the returns will take time. - Poynter
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    Oct 2, 2017
    Best practices for covering mass shootings: poynter.org/news/best-prac…
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    Mar 29, 2019
    The AP Stylebook says the percentage sign is now acceptable when paired with a numeral in most cases.
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    AP says the percentage sign now OK when used with a numeral (that’s shift+5) - Poynter
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    Apr 15, 2019
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    The #Pulitzer for explanatory reporting was awarded to David Barstow, Susanne Craig and Russ Buettner of @nytimes for an investigation of President Trump’s finances that exposed the president’s persistent tax dodging
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    Trump Engaged in Suspect Tax Schemes as He Reaped Riches From His Father (Published 2018)
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    May 4, 2020
    In granting a posthumous citation to Ida B. Wells, the Pulitzer Prizes honors one of America’s earliest and most intrepid investigative reporters.
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    Pulitzers honor Ida B. Wells, an early pioneer of investigative journalism and civil rights icon -...
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    Oct 16, 2017
    Nikole Hannah-Jones: "If newsroom managers wanted diverse newsrooms, they’d have diverse newsrooms." poynter.org/news/passion-a…
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    Aug 28, 2024
    1/ University of Florida President Ben Sasse abruptly resigned in July, citing his wife’s poor health. Less than a month later, the student-run newspaper @TheAlligator broke a bombshell story about how spending under Sasse’s office tripled in his first year.
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    Sep 8, 2020
    Experts are urging media outlets to continually explain the realities of mail-in voting and maintain transparency about the vote count in order to head off conspiracy theories about the validity of the vote.
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    Be patient on election night 2020. Counting the returns will take time. - Poynter
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    May 8, 2023
    The Pulitzer Prizes routinely honor lots of journalism from U.S. news centers like New York and Washington, D.C. But in 2023, much of the best work, according to the Pulitzer Board, was set in the 24th most populous state — Alabama.
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    All roads lead to Alabama for the 2023 Pulitzers - Poynter
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    Jun 28, 2018
    Today's an unwelcome reminder that journalism is difficult and dangerous work poynter.org/news/todays-un…
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    Apr 10, 2017
    The journalist who won the Charleston Gazette-Mail’s first Pulitzer still does a monthly night cops shift poynter.org/2017/the-journ…
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    Aug 28, 2024
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    2/ The story went viral and drew national attention. Florida’s chief financial officer ordered an investigation. Meet the students who chased the story:
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    University of Florida student journalists lead on breaking big stories about former President Ben...
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