Ryan Sholin

Category: Education

  • Classes started yesterday, and I showed up anyway

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    The one class I’m taking this semester (Research Methods) doesn’t start until Monday night, but I showed up at SJSU yesterday, anyway, to take care of some paperwork, turn in a draft of my thesis proposal, and hang out with/badger/heckle the staff of the Spartan Daily, our student newspaper. The print edition of the Daily…

  • New campus media blog

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    Check out CampusByline, a new blog tracking student media across the country. “I think that students can do top-notch journalism (I’ve witnessed it) and I believe that there’s a need to highlight the positive work being done. With that in mind, I wanted to start this blog. It’s going to start out small, at first,…

  • New Media class at SJSU

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    Journalism 163, taught by Steve Sloan and Cynthia McCune (at least one section – are there others?), opens for business at SJSU this week. It’s hard to give this thing a name, and I don’t want to contribute any more than I already have to the handwringing and head-scratching over what it should be, or…

  • That Master of Science degree I’m working on looks pretty good right about now

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    Lots of uplifting statistics in the latest Grady College/University of Georgia survey of j-school graduates, but my favorite is the part about how much grad students are making out of the gate: “Master’s degree recipients in 2005 reported a median salary of $37,000, up from $33,000 in 2004. The 2005 figure was the highest reported…

  • 10 things I heard at the AEJMC convention today

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    Let me tell you about my first time … at the AEJMC convention. Seriously, I had never been to a conference or convention that was about my own field before today. I mean, I’ve hung out with the physicists and the photographers and maybe even the real estate data information professionals back when I was…

  • Blog research at the AEJMC convention

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    For next week’s trick, I’ll be both a reporter and a student at the AEJMC convention. I’m planning on showing up Thursday morning to the citizen journalism session and later in the day for the “What’s Next for Newspapers and for Journalism Education? – A Continuing Discussion” session. Of course, I might want to duck…

  • Adapt. Improvise. Overcome.

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    Daniel got roped into a bullshit internship program in Nepal, but instead of turning back, he just ditched said bullshitters and improvised himself some work. In Kathmandu. It does not appear to have been an easy or pleasant experience, but now he’s shooting for an NGO and making the best of his time there. Word.…

  • Get a job

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    It looks like the SJSU J-School has sprouted a new blog: jmcjobs. For now it’s a list of internship opportunites, which are usually posted on a bulletin board or two in the hallway of the building. Three cheers for posting things in an RSS feed instead of a hallway! Here’s a pleasant gig: The Santa…

  • Does your college newspaper cover the blog beat?

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    Bryan Murley at Reinventing College Media lays out some instructions for covering the campus blogosphere. I think it’s a good idea, but I look at it another way: Reading blogs written by students, faculty, and alumni should be a way to find story ideas — not necessarily a beat in itself — unless, of course,…

  • Computer assisted reporting 2.0

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    Now that the SJSU J-School is cooking up a New Media class for next semester, which I’ve suggested should be mostly a practical lab for future online editors, it’s time to start thinking about the next step in revising the curriculum. Which, of course, it’s not my job to do, but I haven’t let that…