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St. Petersburg Times: PolitiFact Lab at Poynter will explore new ventures

BY BILL ADAIR

PolitiFact and the Poynter Institute have launched a partnership to create the PolitiFact Lab, an initiative that will oversee joint projects and educational programs on fact-checking.

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 nonprofit educational . . . → Read More: St. Petersburg Times: PolitiFact Lab at Poynter will explore new ventures

Bob Woodward talks at Poynter Institute about modern media, investigative journalism

Included are two articles on Bob Woodward’s visit at the Poynter Institute.

BY ERIC DEGGANS,

St. Petersburg Times

ST. PETERSBURG — In the age of Twitter, Facebook, 24-hour cable news and always-updated websites, people may feel they’re swimming in more data than ever about their world and how it works.

But Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Bob Woodward — half of the . . . → Read More: Bob Woodward talks at Poynter Institute about modern media, investigative journalism

Bob Woodward to speak at Poynter

Investigative reporter Bob Woodward will be speaking at the Poynter Institute on March 15, 2011, at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are available for dinner and reserved seating, as well as general admission seating only.

See http://about.poynter.org/woodward for details, or . . . → Read More: Bob Woodward to speak at Poynter

Poynter offers free political coverage training

The Poynter Institute is convening a free conference  in St. Petersburg Aug. 2 and 3 that would benefit any reporter or editor whose coverage involves government or politics.

From Poynter Managing Director Butch Ward:

“New Tools For Improving Your Government Coverage” will introduce reporters, technologists and editors whose stories rely on government records to a variety of . . . → Read More: Poynter offers free political coverage training