St. Petersburg, FL / New Delhi, India (September 19, 2011) – The Poynter Institute’s News University (www.newsu.org) today announced a new partnership with Indira Gandhi National Open University’s (IGNOU) School of Journalism and New Media Studies to create a custom certificate program for students in the school’s Journalism and Mass Communication program.

Rick Edmonds, Poynter Media Business Analyst & Leader of News Transformation, was quoted in a Miami Herald article about Plum Miami. Read about it here.

Poynter’s Kelly McBride, Senior Faculty, Ethics, Reporting and Writing, is quoted in a CNN.com article about New Gingrich’s continued employment with Fox News while actively campaigning for president. Read the article here.

Kelly McBride, Senior Faculty, Ethics, Reporting and Writing, was quoted in a WTOP story about Tony Kornheiser and the Redskins owner lawsuit. Read about it here.

Poynter’s Kelly McBride, Senior Faculty, Ethics, Reporting and Writing, is quoted in an AM New York article about venomous online comments. Read the story here.

Poynter’s Al Tompkins, Senior Faculty, Broadcast and Online, was quoted on TVNewsCheck.com in an article about the partnerships between not-for-profit news organizations and commercial television stations.

Poynter’s Kelly McBride was quoted in an NPR story about Michele Bachmann’s speech covered by CNN.

Al Tompkins, Poynter Senior Faculty, Broadcast and Online, is quoted in a SF Weekly story about a cable channel claiming their reality show is journalism.

Poynter’s Kelly McBride and Butch Ward along with Poynter Affiliate Mario Garcia were quote in a Gulf News story asking the question, Has the need for speed thrown accuracy to the wind?

Rick Edmonds, Media Business Analyst & Leader of News Transformation, is quoted by Canadian Business in an article about metered content.