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Poynter Institute
The Poynter Institute is a non-profit school for journalism located in St. Petersburg, Florida. The school began on May 29, 1975, when Nelson Poynter, the owner and chairman of the St. Petersburg Times and Times Publishing Company, announced that he planned to start a small journalism school called the Modern Media Institute. (The name of the school was changed to the Poynter Institute almost a decade later.