Author: Ryan Sholin
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After Times Select: how do you support a big newsroom online? – Scott Rosenberg
“When you accept that the future for news on the Web is open and does not include much subscription revenue, you also have to accept that your revenue online isn’t going to match your old revenue; it won’t support as many full-time staff.” After Times Select: how do you support a big newsroom online? –…
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Covering Communities
Useful site to share with reporters and editors trying to understand how to cover their communities without writing meeting stories. Covering Communities
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NY Times’ Brave Change: Opening Archives – Center for Citizen Media
Dan Gillmor (of course) notes that the most important change coming from nytimes.com is not the opening of Times Select, but the opening of the archives. NY Times’ Brave Change: Opening Archives – Center for Citizen Media
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A model for the 21st century newsroom: pt1 – the news diamond « Online Journalism Blog
Very, very interesting framework for a web-first newsroom. I need to read this over a bit before I have much else to say about it. A model for the 21st century newsroom: pt1 – the news diamond « Online Journalism Blog
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The Masterplan | The Morning After
Another ‘magazine layout’ wordpress theme, but it’s still quite bloggy feeling. The Masterplan | The Morning After
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The Student Newspaper Survival Blog
New to me, a mix of news and commentary on student newspapers. More fun than handwringing. The Student Newspaper Survival Blog
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Is your newspaper.com is a big ball of mud?
Is your newspaper site a clean-looking, uniform grid of semantic (and validated!) code? Or is it a ‘big ball of mud,’ with includes (scotch tape) and javascript (bubble gum) holding together a jumble of disparate hunks of content? If you answered ‘YES’ to the first question, congratulations, you work at the New York Times, or…
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Code Reads #12: “Big Ball of Mud” – Scott Rosenberg
An explanation of why bubble-gum and scotch-tape programming actually works: Deployment gets users. Users give feedback. Personally, I think the hard part is integrating that feedback into the next version. Code Reads #12: “Big Ball of Mud” – Scott Rosenberg