Ryan Sholin on the future of newspapers, online news and journalism education.
I’ve been through most of this before, either in blog posts or in person, whenever I get the chance to talk with journalism students, but it’s worth repeating. A few tweets this week seem to have proved that, so I’m putting this updated compendium of my advice together for posterity.
My advice to journalism students starts [...]
…one department head or another asked the 140 freshman wanna-be Spielbergs/Godards/Raimis* in the room to raise their hand if they wanted to be a Director.
Many, including me, raised our hands.
The faculty response: “You’ll be lucky if four of you make it.” (I’m paraphrasing. This happened in 1994.)
When I talk to journalism students, I try to [...]
I’ll be doing the Poynter live chat thing at 1pm EDT today over there.
Please, show up, ask some questions, share some success stories, and add to the conversation.
[UPDATE: Wow, that was awesome. Thanks to everyone who showed up, and to Ellyn, Mallary, and everyone else at Poynter for hosting and inviting me. The above link [...]
Over at IdeaLab, Rich Gordon shares his exit interview with Brian Boyer and Ryan Mark, the first two programmers to earn a Master’s degree through Medill’s Knight News Challenge-funded scholarship.
Because it’s fucking important.
Thanks to the News Challenge, I’ve had the chance to meet Brian and Ryan and hang out with them a bit. Frankly, they’re [...]
I spotted a tweet today from Steve Sloan that reminded me there was some sort of awesome road trip going on, wherein San Jose State student journalists are on their way to the inauguration by way of the South, reporting on landmark events in the civil rights movement.
Their reports are being run on CNN — [...]