I’m happy to announce that on Monday I’ll be showing up for my first day of work at Gatehouse Media in Fairport, New York.
I’ll be working with Howard Owens, Bill Blevins, an awesome team of developers and designers, and many more talented folks. (Yes, I will try to pull that remembering-all-your-names on the first try trick again, but O’Hare-induced sleep deprivation may have played a role on my last trip out to Fairport.) My role will be helping many of Gatehouse’s smallest papers give their readers the best online local news experience possible.
For those of you keeping score, yes, this means that I’m leaving my post at the Santa Cruz Sentinel. I can’t thank everyone I’ve worked with at the Sentinel enough, so I won’t try to here. I’m proud of what we put into place in the past year, all difficult circumstances aside. This is a hard business to be in right now in many towns, and the people I’ve been working with know it firsthand, not as some abstract link in an industry blog.
To answer a few questions that keep coming up:
- No, we’re not moving to Rochester this weekend. We’ll skip this winter, move in the spring, and I’ll have the pleasure of seeing a lot more of my wife and daughter for the next few months.
- No, I wasn’t exactly looking for a new job, but it found me. To be more precise, Howard sent me a video message on Facebook. If you’re thinking “Hey, I told Ryan to call me when he was looking for work!” all I can say is thank you.
- Yes, I am excited to be moving to Yankee country. I’m looking forward to living in a town where a coffee shop barista starts a conversation about last night’s game, and no one cares what Barry Bonds says or does.
- Yes, I’ll still be blogging. All the usual disclaimers apply: This is my space for my thoughts and my opinions. No place of business or educational institution is responsible for what I write here.
- Speaking of education, yes, I’m still working on my thesis.
- A note to j-school students: Blogging about what you’re passionate about gets you work that you’re passionate about. Mr. Lebowski asked me to repeat that. Blogging about what you’re passionate about gets you work that you’re passionate about.
Conveniently enough, I’ll be in New York for a couple weeks, so I’ll be at the Networked Journalism Summit in NYC on October 10th. See you there, or in Fairport, or around town in Santa Cruz.
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25 responses to “A career move”
Congratulations on the move.
Now please save our rural papers. Start with mine if you want: http://mexicoledger.com/.
I reckon it fits in that smallest paper range.
Good luck, and if it means anything, I think Gatehouse has made a good hire.
Congrats sir. Don’t think this will stop me from asking you random journalism questions all the time, I’ll just have to remember to ask them three hours earlier than usual.
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As a j-school student: thank you for your advice.
Welcome aboard, Ryan. We’re all excited to have you joining the team.
FWIW: It was because of a blog post that I got this job.
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Ryan, that’s great news.
They’ve got a fantastic team up there doing fantastic work. Look forward to meeting you in person in NYC.
Big ups, Ryan!
I hope you still have that thick wool stocking cap from the Cambridge picture. NY winters are nippy!
I heard it snows 647 feet a year up there on the shore of Lake Ontario. That’s just what I heard.
Thanks, everybody.
@WPB Posse: Yeah, well, I did my 17 years sweating through December in unincorporated northeast Dade County, so I figure I can handle some puffy-coat months.
Rochester’s great ….Gatehouse Media is even better.
Best wishes for success.
Ryan
Looking forward to meeting you in New York at the Networked Journalism Summit.
I’m still in J-school thesis hell myself. (What fun!).
I hope we get a chance to hang out on the west coast before you big move.
Congrats dude. Shame this is the last time I’ll read your blog. I can’t have a Yankee fan in my RSS reader. It just feels dirty. Go Rays.
Congrats~~~ So, what kind of work for the papers are you going to be doing?
“Blogging about what you’re passionate about gets you work that you’re passionate about. ”
Too true. Good luck in the new job.
Congrats, Ryan!
Looks like you’ll be working for my competition in North Dakota and Minnesota.
Cheers.
Congrats Ryan!
Congratulations Ryan!
And congratulations to Howard and Bill for hiring you.
Congratulations, Ryan. I’m glad you’ll be doing all the things you’ve talked about. Nothing beats that.
Great news!
[…] **Full disclosure: Howard is my new boss. […]
[…] here. Is the headquarters of GateHouse Media in this office park? If so, this one is in honor of Ryan Sholin’s new gig working with Howard Owens et al. If not, then, uh, here’s some office park in Fairport, New […]
Congratulations, as others have said. Hope to see great things from you in the future at Gatehouse. Owens and Sholin in one place – that’s a dynamic team.
[…] Ryan Sholin, the Invisible Inkling, starts a new job today at Gatehouse Media. He’s going to be working with Howard Owens, who has no cool moniker for his weblog :-). It’s an interesting part of what is sure to be a powerhouse Gatehouse web team. Read Ryan’s announcement here. […]
I don’t like this, I don’t like this one bit. I was looking forward to seeing you when I got back, and now it looks like that won’t be happening… *tear