Ryan Sholin on the future of newspapers, online news and journalism education.
Be honest.
Be yourself.
Assume that everything you say is public, even if you say it privately.
If it’s not clear to you what’s public and what’s private, don’t participate.
Inspired by recent discussion about the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and New York Times guidelines for reporters using social media.
A lot of talk about platforms for news these days, no?
A sampling:
Joey Baker at CoPress defines one of the many things that “newspaper platform” could mean to a local news site:
“…taking lessons from Gawker, Slashdot and the New York Times, and aggregating everything. If there’s a story online that’s relevant to your community, link to [...]
I’ve been holding back on this for a long time, and I write enough about the Web development team at nytimes.com enough to be held to this as well, but really, I’m incredibly tired of reading media and technology bloggers debate the future of news as if the only existing newspaper in the world is [...]
Aron Pilhofer of nytimes.com on the hardware, software, and costs associated with building the best interactive data projects in the news business:
Everything we use is free and open-source. Our platform is Ruby on Rails backed by Mysql databases running on Ubuntu servers. The cost here isn’t software, or even hardware, which is relatively cheap these [...]
A few things I haven’t had time yet to dig deeper on, but maybe you will:
Eric Ulken offers of 10 pieces of advice at OJR, based on his experience building the data desk at the LA Times:
“4. Go off the reservation: No matter how good your IT department is, their priorities are unlikely to be [...]