Ryan Sholin on the future of newspapers, journalism education, and communication.
Ryan Sholin on the future of newspapers, online news and journalism education.
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 [...]
If you’re in the online news business, you’re in the participation business.
If you’re a journalist, starting conversations is your job.
So what are you doing standing on the sidelines?
Start blogging here: wordpress.com
Start sharing your photos here: flickr.com
Start sharing your bookmarks here: del.icio.us
Start developing a social network here: facebook.com
That’s the bare minimum. What are you waiting for?
Participation [...]
I got the IM interview treatment from Bryan Murley over at Innovation in College Media last night. Hopefully I don’t come off sounding like I have two heads and three arms, if you know what I mean.
Regular readers of this blog (all three of you) have heard most of what I said, er, typed, [...]
I don’t think there is going to be a Why in this story.
There’s certainly a What Happened, and as journalists, that’s our first job.
The remaining details will fill themselves in over time, but the Why will probably never come.
Everyone will blame what they want to blame — no, what it is convenient for them to [...]
If I were a young, fresh out of j-school, Bay Area journalist interested in technology and business, I’d be applying for this job at Wired in a big hurry.
Heck, even if I were still in school, I’d probably write something up and send it in — or better yet, post it on my own blog [...]
