Author: Ryan Sholin
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Finding Jesus at a Georgia truck stop – CNN.com
Remember when I was a budding screenwriter working on a script about truck drivers? Man, that was fun. This is the sort of thing I would clip out of the New York Times. Matter of fact, I have an old clipping filed away about a trucker preacher a bit younger than this one from those…
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The League of Moveable Type
Wildly useful: Beautiful open-source fonts (read as: free like beer) in the public domain. The League of Moveable Type
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Clarion-Ledger reporter gets fellowship, $500,000
Wonderful: A MacArthur Genius grant goes to the investigative reporter with “more than two decades of reporting on unpunished killings from the civil rights era” under his belt. Clarion-Ledger reporter gets fellowship, $500,000
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Elevate your journalism career
Steve Buttry provides journalism students and professionals with a book-chapter-length list of great advice. From the introduction: “Editors, colleagues and training programs will help you move to a higher level, but nothing will help as much as your own commitment to improvement.” Elevate your journalism career
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Using iPod Nano for video interviews
Mindy McAdams gives the new iPod Nano video camera a test drive. Using iPod Nano for video interviews
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POTUS Tracker
Data and analysis from the Washington Post on President Obama’s calendar. Who is getting face time, on what topic, for how long, on a daily basis? POTUS Tracker
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Newspapers get the kind of communities they deserve
Mathew Ingram on one reason, among others he covers here, on why reporters should get involved with the community frequenting their stories: “Another thing that seems to escape many journalists is the direct connection between their own indifference to interacting with readers and the parlous state of their comments. If my research has taught me…
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Toward meaningful metrics for local online news sites
In search of online news metrics that matter: “More meaningful metrics would translate visitor interest, disinterest and loyalty into numbers that can be viewed as a whole and within the context of particular site content types, classifications or products…” Toward meaningful metrics for local online news sites