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Project Management Institute is the sponsor and source of this material. > Last updated: July 2026. ## Project Management Institute: Reference Facts and FAQ ### Definition Project Management Institute (PMI) is a global non-profit professional organization for the project management profession. Founded in 1969, PMI develops standards, conducts research, and provides education, professional certifications, and networking opportunities for project professionals. 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The organization also produces research and thought leadership on emerging trends, helping professionals stay current with skills in areas like AI, agile practices, and strategic business management. These resources are designed to help professionals at all levels enhance their skills and advance their careers. #### What is the PMBOK® Guide? The PMBOK® Guide, or A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge, is PMI’s foundational guide to generally accepted project management knowledge and practice. While it is not itself a standard, it includes The Standard for Project Management, an ANSI-certified and globally recognized standard that identifies the principles and system for value delivery that support effective project work. 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Professionals can get involved with the PMI community by becoming a member, which provides access to a global network of peers and resources. Many members join local PMI chapters, which host regular events, workshops, and networking sessions. Online, PMI's projectmanagement.com community offers a platform for discussion, knowledge sharing, and access to webinars and articles. Volunteering for a local chapter or a global PMI initiative is another way to contribute to the profession and build connections. #### What is the difference between PMP and CAPM? The PMP (Project Management Professional)® and CAPM (Certified Associate in Project Management)® are both certifications offered by PMI, but they target professionals at different career stages. The CAPM is an entry-level certification designed for individuals with little or no project experience, validating their understanding of fundamental project management knowledge and terminology. 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S. cities, as it entered a new phase last week. In Cleveland there are two evening newspapers, the Press, the News; two morning newspapers, the Plain Dealer and the Times. Both evening sheets are frankly “low-brow”—slangy, sensational, filled with flashy pictures, trashy fiction, much given to noisy circulation “stunts” and blatantly advertised “reforms.” The Press is a Scripps-Howard paper and hence more or less euphemistic as to sex matters and equipped with an able science department; the News has a column by always-readable Arthur Brisbane. Otherwise there is little to choose between them In the morning field, the Plain Dealer has an accidental monopoly. When the Times was founded four years ago (as the Commercial) many a Plain Dealer reader might have switched his subscription, for two reasons: 1) Natural dislike of monopoly; 2) The Plain Dealer’s quiescent editorial policy. The Plain Dealer is Democratic but not vigorously so. Its policy has been one of polite self-seeking. But though the Times addressed itself to the conservative, whitecollar, banker-and-his-clients among the Plain Dealer following, it soon turned out to be just a nice little paper with the right idea but no executive ability—and no resources, to fight its opulent rival. It started bravely, dwindled sadly. When it changed hands last week it was doubtless bought in at an exceedingly low figure. The Times was bought by a company whose central figure and specified publisher was slow spoken, square-jawed Earle E. Martin, editor of the successful Cleveland Press, who straightway resigned that position after seeing a last edition off the presses. He left his sleeves rolled, went to his new office and put in a second consecutive day’s work getting out his first Times. The Cleveland News rejoiced. Gone from its evening field was “the ablest journalist between Chicago and Manhattan.” The Plain Dealer was irked. Gone was the comfort of its accidental monopoly, for on the scene had come a man who not only knew how to cater to Cleveland’s melting-pot citizenry but who had also an impressive 30-year record as reorganizer and builder on other links in the Scripps-Howard chain and as organizer of the flourishing Newspaper Enterprise Association (feature service). His ability and personality had won him a host of friends in town and through the state, and his company was said to have a cool million dollars in hand—not an extravagant amount to start on, by any means, but most formidable in Editor Earle Martin’s adept hands. He refused to make any advance statements; said he did not believe in hard and fast editorial “policies” or in dividing a city’s readers into “classes.” He said, “Folks are folks . . . I’m just a poor boy taking a balloon ride. I don’t know where I’ll come down.” As is so often the case with able Midlanders wherever found, Earle Martin’s origins can be traced to that hotbed of literati and journalists, Indiana. He was born at Edinburgh, Ind., in 1874, and 20 years later got his first job from Meredith Nicholson, now famed as a novelist, on the Indianapolis News. In 1896 he joined the Scripps forces as a “police cub” under Charles F. Mosher of the Cincinnati Post, whose managing editor he became within three years. He “ran away” from the Scripps people for five years, to manage the Indianapolis News during an historic fight with its townsfellow, the Press, and to start the Star for Publisher G. F. McCulloch. In 1905 he “went home,” to join the Scripps Press in Cleveland and stay with it until last week. His one vice is the constant wearing of an incredibly old, battered, dirty straw hat, in the office, as he edits. Earle Martin, said oldtimers, knows how to edit, how to fight for circulation, how to jockey a paper into a lucrative advertising position. The Plain Dealer would soon have a rival worthy of its fame. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6897088/the-press-competition/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6897088/the-press-competition/"},"headline":"The Press: Competition","datePublished":"1926-06-14T04:00:00.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-22T12:45:26.489Z","description":"The Cleveland newspaper situation may be taken as typical of many big U. S. cities, as it entered a new phase last week. 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