Systems developer CCI is teaming up with the Poynter Institute to provide news organisations with its signature journalism and leadership training.
Users of CCI's cross-platform content management solutions around the world will have access a Poynter/CCI seminar series designed to help them maximise their ROI, manage change and ease the adaption of technology tools.
It’s a two-way gain: Poynter president Karen Dunlap says the institute will have a unique opportunity to reach newsrooms with important training just as they are implementing tools to make a difference in their work.
“We know from experience that the right tools, combined with the right skills, can produce journalism that is deeper, more engaging and far more likely to matter to the communities they serve."
CCI chief executive Dan Korsgaard says he is excited that the Poynter seminars will be combined with interactive teaching and hands-on sessions with CCI’s NewsGate platform.
"The world-renowned Poynter seminars offer a great opportunity for customers to explore digital media trends, realise new business opportunities, and develop effective change approaches,” he says.
Under the agreement, CCI customers will be able to organise on-site seminars conducted by Poynter faculty in core journalism skills and values, leadership and management and multimedia.
Poynter faculty and CCI consultants will be able to plan individual programmes that address particular training needs, and the two have agreed that effective models and best practices can be shared among CCI customers and participants in other Poynter teaching sessions.
"Poynter will continue to provide training services to other organisations and CCI is free to do the same," said Dunlap.
CCI’s customers include ‘USA Today’, the ‘New York Times’, ‘Chicago Tribune’ and ‘Los Angeles Times' in the USA, ‘Die Welt’ in Germany, ‘The Times of India’, and Hong Kong's ‘South China Morning Post’.
West Australian Newspapers and APN are customers in Australia.
Founded in 1975 in St Petersburg, Florida, the Poynter Institute is one of top US schools for professional journalists and news media leaders, as well as future journalists journalism teachers, and the general public.
Poynter offers training throughout the year covering online and multimedia, leadership and management, reporting, writing and editing, TV and radio, ethics and diversity, journalism education and visual journalism. Its News University offers journalism training to the public through more than 200 interactive modules and other forms of e-learning.
Pictured: Poynter multimedia and mobile specialist Regina McCombs coaches Lisa Anderson, a Columbia journalism review fellow, during a seminar in St Petersburg
In the newsletter: Butch Ward – whose newsroom experience includes several years as managing editor at the ‘Philadelphia Inquirer’, teaches leadership and management for Poynter, including sessions on managing through change.