Evaluating: "Poynter.org", Shannon Findlay and Katrine Sorensen.

Overall Content:

• The website being published by the Poynter Institute (a journalism school) is free, but contains several advertisements of different kinds.


• Authours of the articles are named, but their titles are not disclosed. The page was updated several times on the day of evaluation.


• The site is intended for journalists, journalism students and other news junkies although this is not stated on the site.

Compare with other resources:

• The website may not provide better content than written publications, the content is simply of another character.


• Since the site is published by a journalism school, the audience can expect a fairly high degree of reliability.


• The site (as many other websites) focus primarily on current information even though it dates back to 1995.


• There is a multitude of various tools and information on the site, and the site links out to relevant information.

Author

• Poynter Institute is the author of the website.


• Poynter Institute is a school of journalism. PI is the owner of a company that publishes St Petersburg Times and Florida Trend magazine.


• The content is meant to educate, and has an extensive list of corrections to their own articles.


• The site is funded by advertisements on the page.


• The Poynter Institute supports its own information.


• It's an American institution that provides the page.


• Contact information is provided on the website.

Check the Links

• The site provides both internal and external links. The references are stated fairly clearly.


• The newer links we tested all worked, but a link from a 1999 article disappointed us. Dates of revision are not posted on the articles.


• The links do not seem to have been evaluated in any way.