Ernest Hooper

The Poynter Institute is a nonprofit media institute and newsroom based in St. Petersburg, FL. The company is a 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 and around the world. Its e-learning division, News University, offers the world's largest online journalism curriculum. The institute's website produces 24-hour coverage about media, ethics, technology, and the business of news. Poynter is the home of the Craig Newmark Center for Ethics and Leadership, the Pulitzer Prize-winning PolitiFact, the International Fact-Checking Network, and MediaWise, a digital information literacy project for young people. The CEO of the company is Paul C. Tash.