Meet the Ukrainian Man Who Owns Poynteronline.org

Back around 2008-2009, the Poynter Institute vacated the URL Poynteroinline.org as part of a website redesign. However, it continued using that terminology – “Poynter Online” – on Facebook and elsewhere.

Today, iMediaEthics publisher-editor Rhonda Roland Shearer has some bad news for the St. Petersburg, Florida journalism institute. A non-journalist in a faraway land snapped up the URL in 2011 and has been using it as a legacy framework for some illicit SEO activity:

According to Whois, Poynteronline.org

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