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.
Things you may have noticed about me in recent days, weeks, months, or years:
I don’t write blog posts as often as I used to.
I share links all over the place, and I have for a long time now.
I have a new job that involves a lot of thinking about best practices for journalists who link [...]
Three links about Twitter you should see if you haven’t yet:
Guy Kawasaki on How to use Twitter as a Twool.
Katherine Boehret writes YASEOT (yet another simple explanation of Twitter), but it’s at the Wall Street Journal’s AllThingsD site, so your editor and publisher will read it this time.
Old Media New Tricks has a brief guide [...]
The moment that launched years of overzealous information consumption, filtering, sharing, and engagement, for me, was seeing Scoble’s feedreader on a screen in 2005. He was subscribed to 1200 feeds.
Since then, he’s shifted his information production and consumption around from stream to stream as necessary to stay at the absolute front of the curve as [...]
The Orange County Register is aggregating tweets about fires in the area right now.
This is advanced reporting with Twitter, jumping way ahead from using it as a tool to push out headlines, and serving a very different information need than the promotional / community building of a Colonel Tribune, as much as I admire that [...]