Poynter receives $1.4m grant for online journalism training centre
Poynter will expand its interactive NewsUniversity with the help of the Knight Foundation funding
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US journalism training organisation The Poynter Institute has received $1.4 million in funding to improve its e-learning site.
The five-year grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation will be used to expand the NewsU site, set up in 2005 to provide interactive courses for journalists and students and teachers of journalism.
Improvements will focus on offering more training in digital journalism and reaching those who do not have access to formal training, an announcement by NewsU said.
Courses will also be developed in different languages using the funding and modules on 'news literacy' for the public.
"New technology is transforming journalism. Journalism education cannot meet the training needs of today’s journalist without using that same technology. We hope this grant helps anyone learn to use new platforms to pursue the fair, accurate, contextual search for truth," said Gary Kebbel, director of journalism programs at Knight Foundation.
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Laura Oliver is a freelance journalist, a contributor to the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, co-founder of The Society of Freelance Journalists and the former editor of Journalism.co.uk (prior to it becoming JournalismUK)
