The Poynter Institute for Media Studies is an American non-profit organization based in St. Petersburg, Florida.
Organization
Poynter hosts the Craig Newmark Center for Ethics and Leadership and three “fact-checking” platforms: the International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN), PolitiFact, and MediaWise.[1]
Donors
Major donors to Poynter include:[1:1][2][3]
- AARP
- Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
- Blue Cross Blue Shield Association
- Charles Koch Institute
- Craig Newmark Philanthropies
- Democracy Fund
- Foundation for Advancing Alcohol Responsibility
- Gannett Foundation
- Gill Foundation
- Google News Initiative
- Google News Lab
- Institute for War and Peace Reporting
- Knight Foundation
- Lumina Foundation
- Luminate
- MacArthur Foundation
- McClatchy Foundation
- McCormick Foundation
- Meta Platforms
- Microsoft
- National Endowment for Democracy
- Newton & Rochelle Becker Charitable Trust
- Omidyar Network
- Open Society Foundations
- Rays Baseball Foundation
- TEGNA Foundation
- TikTok
- Washington Post
Clients
- American Society of Business Publication Editors
- Community Newspaper Holdings
- Corporation for Public Broadcasting
- Danish School of Media and Journalism
- Media24
- National Public Radio (NPR)
- NBC News
- Newsweek
- Penske Media Corporation
- Pinellas County School District
- Raliance
- TEGNA
- United States Agency for Global Media
- University of South Florida St. Petersburg
- USA Today
- Washington Post
Publications
- February 7, 2013: "Use of generic photos can be dangerous for illustrating news stories" by Jeff Sonderman
Further reading
- February 13, 2024: "Who's Behind PolitiFact?" by Liam Sturgess, originally published by The Kennedy Beacon
Major Funders. Poynter. Retrieved February 7, 2022, from http://archive.today/2022.02.07-105525/https://www.poynter.org/major-funders/ ↩︎ ↩︎
Wallace, W. (2017, August 17). Largest funders of The Poynter Institute. Poynter. http://archive.today/2022.12.05-172822/https://www.poynter.org/ethics-trust/2017/largest-funders-of-the-poynter-institute/ ↩︎
The Poynter Institute for Media Studies, Inc. (2015, November). Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. http://archive.today/2022.12.06-074838/https://www.gatesfoundation.org/about/committed-grants/2015/11/opp1138320 ↩︎
