Author: Ryan Sholin
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How to write about a lawsuit
Remember when I said I would stop linking to my own stories in the Daily? Er…um… I worked on this one for about two weeks. Lawsuit writing lesson*: He claimed to have charged, in the lawsuit, that the defendant allegedly made claims of allegations, according to the suit. The plaintiff charges that allegations were made…
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Profile writing is easy when your subject is a really nice guy
By the way, the story I wrote about Dan Goldston for yesterday’s Spartan Daily is the best thing I’ve written yet since I went back to school and started writing journalism in my classes. (Note to myself: this is one to send to Grandma.) But of course, writing a profile on someone is just WAY…
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US gold medalist uses his two minutes of fame to help Darfur
Heard this one on NPR, clock radio style, first thing this morning: Here’s the brief from npr.org… American speed skater Joey Cheek did something very unusual after winning the 500 meter race at the Winter Olympics. He announced he’s contributing his $25,000 gold medal award from the U.S. Olympic Committee to refugees from Darfur. And…
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links for 2006-02-14
Interactive Narratives Interesting multimedia journalism site, blog, podcast. Subscribed! (tags: journalism multimedia online+journalism)
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Interactive Narratives
Interesting multimedia journalism site, blog, podcast. Subscribed! Interactive Narratives
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Guy Kawasaki outtakes
Here are some gems from Guy Kawasaki‘s Thursday night talk at SJSU that didn’t make it into this article I wrote for the Spartan Daily. “It’s a Windows mic.” — on trying to get a mediocre lavalier microphone working “Are you oppressed or stupid?” — on the number of Windows-users in the audience “If there’s…
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links for 2006-02-12
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Online college newspapers hooked up to social bookmarking sites
Forgive me if some of this is a little inside baseball, but I think this is pretty smart: The company that hosts the online edition of the Spartan Daily , along with 100+ other college newspapers, has added links to the bottom of each story to make it easier to post our articles to Digg,…