My favorite place for keeping tabs on what’s happening in the news industry just got a makeover. Poynter Online, the Web home of the Poynter Institute, the non-profit journalism education and policy institute, is previewing a new look that makes it easier to navigate through the wealth of material available there.
The new front page has tabs for quick access to some of the site’s most popular columns and blogs, including Romenesko, a daily briefing on who’s in, who’s out and who’s saying what at the nation’s top newspapers, magazines and news blogs.
One new addition is Poynter Groups. Call it a social network, call it a message board. Whatever you call it, it’s a space for working journalists – staffers and freelancers – to dish about their jobs and craft.
Poynter has held seminars and other types of classes for journalists for over 30 years. The institute has collected its online education resources and put them in one place, appropriately called Training.
The site also has separate sections for jobs and an online store.