Ryan Sholin

Category: Education

  • Protection coming for California college media?

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    In today’s Spartan Daily, the student newspaper here at San Jose State University, former Daily executive editor John Myers reports that a California legislator has introduced a bill in the state assembly that would make it more difficult for university officials to censor campus media outlets. Myers wrote that Leland Yee, the sponsor of the…

  • Northwestern J-School dean takes the long view

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    In this Q & A, John Lavine lays out “Medill 2020,” a plan to develop the Medill J-School at Northwestern University. Medill seems to be doing all the right things: Planning to get students out of their silos and into classes that teach them storytelling, ethics, and basic journalistic principles, regardless of their medium of…

  • SJSU blogger shout out time

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    There are a bunch of bloggers these days in the SJSU journalism program, and although I don’t regularly point out the ones who aren’t writing about media much, I do catch plenty of what they write in the feed vacuum known as my aggregator. So without further preamble… Andrew the “Soapbox Prophet” hasn’t posted since…

  • A lesson in covering breaking news on campus from the Daily Iowan

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    The first thing I thought when I heard a tornado hit the Iowa City and the University of Iowa last night was “I bet the Daily Iowan has video up.” Sure enough, the student newspaper has a package of stories, plus some fantastic tornado-at-night video, including shots of students watching and describing the scene. The…

  • Talking points for a visit to Journalism 132

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    [I’m sitting in on Prof. Greene’s information gathering classes this morning…] Hi everyone. I’m supposed to be providing some constructive criticism on your blog posts, but the odds are pretty good that I’ll be going off on a tangent or three, so here are links to a few things I figure I’ll be rambling on…

  • A pair of photojournalism events at SJSU

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    If you’re a photojournalist, an art photographer, or a J-School student interested in multimedia journalism, you should check out Dai Sugano’s talk Thursday April 13th at an SJSU NPPA event. Sugano shoots for the San Jose Mercury News and works on a small team of photographers, editors, and web producers putting together multimedia presentations at…

  • This year’s big “duh”

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    Last year, the big “duh” was the raging irrational debate over whether blogs were journalism. Answer? If you write journalism, it’s journalism. If you record journalism, it’s journalism. Doesn’t matter what medium you choose to display it in, doesn’t matter if you’re the San Jose Mercury News or Grade the News or Rocketboom — it’s…

  • Colorado college newspaper invites campus bloggers into the fold

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    The University of Colorado’s student newspaper is about to launch student, faculty, and staff blogs hosted by the paper’s Web site. We talked about doing this here at the Daily, but we have a hard time convincing each other that anyone would use a blog here, as opposed to, say, MySpace. There’s a point where…

  • Vendor sports, SJSU style

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    I’ve now written stories for the Spartan Daily about Microsoft, Google, and Apple. Is Yahoo next? Thankfully, no. But I’ll keep an eye out, so I can hit the superfecta. For the record, every single student who has talked to me about the iTunes U story has said something to the effect of “So we…

  • SJSU snowdome

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    Or maybe it’s just the reflection in the library windows. Sorry, the point-and-shoot doesn’t have a polarizer.