Poynter Institute

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
• WhatsApp

Clients

• American Society of Business Publication Editors
• Community Newspaper Holdings
• Corporation for Public Broadcasting
• Danish School of Media and Journalism
• Google
• 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