Ryan Sholin on the future of newspapers, online news and journalism education.
A bulleted list of things that have caught my eye over the past few days, or things I’ve been involved in, or things I’d like to be involved in…
Pat Thornton interviewed me for the BeatBlogging podcast. We talked about ReportingOn, what it could become, and (more important) what it could spawn if there are interested [...]
Over at IdeaLab, I’ve got a post up that circles back to the first version of ReportingOn, my Knight News Challenge project. In the post, I revisit some of the problems the 2.0 release was intended to solve, and I do a bit of scorekeeping on RO’s progress.
Here’s a bit from the post about one [...]
Last week, I asked for some on tips on why news organizations should link to external sources.
I wanted your best reasons, and you happily provided them. Six of you answered via the Publish Tip Form I embedded in that blog post, and seven of you replied on Twitter.
You can find my favorite answers in this [...]
From Daniel Victor comes news that he’s working on a new job description, and a new reporting beat:
“If I can sell my editors on the concept, I would be the author and community manager of a new blog. My stated goal will be to have at least one originally reported story per day, usually some [...]
I spent 20 minutes or so talking about Wired Journalists and Ning with Pat Thornton last week for a BeatBlogging.org podcast.
Here are some highlights from Pat’s list of questions:
Would you choose Ning again if you could start over?
How specific should a topic be for a Ning site to be specific?
How many users are needed for [...]