Ryan Sholin on the future of newspapers, journalism education, and communication.
Ryan Sholin on the future of newspapers, online news and journalism education.
Michele McLellan has been doing some liveblogging of the Knight Digital Media Center’s Leadership Conference this week.
Check out her notes from Krisztina Holly’s talk about innovation. Holly mentioned seven myths about innovation; I’m going to flip the proverbial script and turn them into Seven Reasons Innovation is Messy:
Focusing your vision on the core problem means [...]
Funny thing about the newspaper business.
If you’re interested in innovation, you find yourself constantly trying to demonstrate the present to people with their feet (and desks, workflow, and hierarchy) planted firmly in the past.
And while The Future of Newspapers mostly gets ink for being bleak, the future of news does not blink, or miss a [...]
Wednesday night, I’ll be speaking with Steve Sloan’s New Media class at San Jose State University.
I’m planning to show off some of the best of your work.
Yes, you.
I’m looking for online news sites and projects that stray from the traditional definition of news.
I’m assuming these journalism students get enough Gloom & Doom handwringers from other [...]
At the end of 2007, Howard Owens* published a blog post outlining a year-long program he called 2008 objectives for today’s non-wired journalist.
A few of the objectives:
Become a blogger.
Start shooting your own pictures.
Do the same with video.
Join social networks.
Howard soon started fielding e-mails and requests for guidance from reporters looking to take him up on [...]
We talk a lot in the circles I run in about a new skillset for reporters and about how a wired journalist in 2008 should be keeping up with the technologies and communities that are quickly looking like Michael Johnson in 1996, looking back at newspapers over their shoulder, smugly.
Yoni Greenbaum walks right into the [...]
