Ryan Sholin on the future of newspapers, journalism education, and communication.
Ryan Sholin on the future of newspapers, online news and journalism education.
That headline seems obvious, no?
Then why is it that when journalists see layoffs, buyouts, and newspaper companies in trouble, they sigh and say “Should I stop wasting my time and start applying to advertising agencies?”
Really?
Here are a few ways you be a journalist without a full-time job at a mainstream news organization:
Become a placeblogger. Report [...]
That’s right, if you’re an ink-stained, hard-nosed reporter who thinks all this New Media stuff is bunk, Boss Owens has a hundred Amazon bucks with your name on ‘em.
If you perform a few small tasks, of course.
Like, start reading blogs, get a blog, start writing, shoot some stills and video, upload them, join a social [...]
That’s good advice up there in the title of this post. I got it from a screenwriting teacher, and it’s been a running joke around our house for the last week based on a couple movies we’ve watched lately.
And it’s also good advice for narrative journalists.
But that’s not what this post is about.
This post [...]
I’m not going to go into much detail or analysis of what happened to Twitter today, other to point out that this blog post by Jeremiah Owyang started it and became a hub for at least 300 people to connect to each other, and thus to each other’s networks.
“Quite simply, my whole hustle is that,
‘I [...]
I’m posting the following as a comment on the Mercury News Rethink blog in response to Jay Rosen’s call for input as to how a Merc beatblogger on green technology could have covered the “Al Gore joins Kleiner Perkins” story this week.
I’m going to throw a monkeywrench at the Rethink works here, just to air [...]
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