Poynter and Association of Opinion Journalists (AOJ) Announce Partnership
Poynter to provide organizational management to help grow AOJ membership and outreach efforts
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., Feb. 18, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Poynter Institute and the Association of Opinion Journalists (AOJ) have signed an agreement in which Poynter will provide management services to help increase AOJ's engagement, membership and outreach. AOJ will now be based at The Poynter Institute in St. Petersburg, Fla.
Poynter will leverage its forty years of teaching experience and involvement with journalists and the media industry to assist AOJ with programming, strategic goals, events and conference management, fundraising and member recruitment and administration.
Poynter will take a lead role to bolster AOJ's ongoing operations and its signature programs, including the Minority Writers Seminar and AOJ's annual symposium. The seminar, now in its 20th year, and symposium will both take place in November at Poynter.
"The agreement between the Association of Opinion Journalists and the Poynter Institute will extend the reach of our organization and increase our ability to offer training in the rapidly evolving craft of opinion journalism," said Lois Kazakoff, president of AOJ Foundation and deputy editorial page editor of the San Francisco Chronicle. "This will help ensure American media has a wide range of voices reflective of our diverse nation, especially in digital media. Poynter is the premier journalism training organization in the country. Our partnership can help strengthen both organizations as the media landscape changes."
"The Association of Opinion Journalists and The Poynter Institute share a common mission: fostering journalistic excellence that improves our democracy and engages citizens," said Tim Franklin, Poynter's president. "We're honored that AOJ has decided to call Poynter its home, and we believe that this is a partnership that will strengthen both organizations."
The organizations will partner for their first joint event with an evening reception in Washington D.C., on Sunday, April 26. This reception will be held in conjunction with AOJ's annual State Department Briefing the following day.
Find more information about the State Department Briefing, or register for the event here.
About the Association of Opinion Journalists
The Association of Opinion Journalists is a nonprofit professional organization that exists to improve the quality of opinion writing and to promote high standards among opinion writers and editors. The organization was founded in 1947 as The National Conference of Editorial Writers (NCEW) and renamed itself AOJ in 2012.
About The Poynter Institute
The Poynter Institute for Media Studies is a global leader in journalism education, and a strategy center that stands for uncompromising excellence in journalism, media and 21st century public discourse. Poynter faculty teach seminars and workshops at the Institute in St. Petersburg, Fla., and at conferences and organizational sites around the world. Its e-learning division, News University,www.newsu.org, offers the world's largest online journalism curriculum in 7 languages, with more than 400 interactive courses and 300,000 registered users in more than 200 countries. The Institute's website,www.poynter.org, produces 24-hour coverage of news about media, ethics, technology, the business of news and the trends that currently define and redefine journalism news reporting. The world's top journalists and media innovators come to Poynter to learn and teach new generations of reporters, storytellers, media inventors, designers, visual journalists, documentarians and broadcast producers, and to build public awareness about journalism, media, the First Amendment and protected discourse that serves democracy and the public good.
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