{"id":37941,"date":"2017-11-06T23:55:55","date_gmt":"2017-11-07T04:55:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=37941"},"modified":"2017-11-07T00:27:59","modified_gmt":"2017-11-07T05:27:59","slug":"what-wendy-wore-poynters-bowtie-ball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/what-wendy-wore-poynters-bowtie-ball\/","title":{"rendered":"What Wendy Wore: Poynter’s Bowtie Ball"},"content":{"rendered":"

This weekend, MrB and I went to Tampa, Fla., for the Poynter Institute’s Bowtie Ball. The Poynter Institute is a top resource on journalism for working journalists, people who teach journalism, students, and consumers. As the Poynter website says, “We teach leadership, ethical decision-making and fact-checking; we teach editing, writing, reporting and digital media skills; we teach those in broadcast, print , online and mobile; we teach those trying to remake their organizations and those trying to remake their journalistic skills set.”<\/p>\n

The Institute was founded by and named for Nelson Poynter, who produced newspapers in St. Petersburg, Fla., including the\u00a0 St. Petersburg Times (now the Tampa Bay Times). He wore a bow tie every day. MrB, who received Poynter\u2019s Distinguished Service to Journalism Award, wore a bow tie to the ball. I made do with a party favor.<\/p>\n

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Here’s what the program had to say about MrB …<\/p>\n

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… and here’s what he had to say for himself in his acceptance speech.<\/p>\n