Ryan Sholin

Category: Media

  • On IdeaLab: Can the political press grow a spine with a little help from you?

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    I interviewed Jay Rosen today on IM about his spinewatch project, which encourages journalists, bloggers, and citizens in general to point out moments when the political press on the campaign trail shows evidence of needing to grow one, or of having grown one. Jay: “But the rules and assumptions underlying the fact checking regime are…

  • Check out my online news toolbox

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    I finally finished a basic Tools page to start a list of some of the basic, mostly-free, mostly-embeddable applications that I recommend for quick and simple Web production. It’s not intended to be all-encompassing; it’s just a short list of things I find useful.  You might find them useful, too. But if you have any…

  • The question I’m going to ask everyone at SND and APME

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    I’m off in a few minutes to the airport to SND and APME in Las Vegas for a few nights. Here’s the plan I’m cooking up for a little video interview project: Carry my point & shoot camera. Ask lots of people I meet to answer one question on video. Post all the answers. Edit…

  • See you in Vegas?

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    I can’t believe it’s Friday already, which means I’m just a couple days away from hopping a flight to Las Vegas for the massive SND/APME conference. Check out the schedule of speakers at SND for starters and drool: DeVigal. Curley. Veen. The “Young Voices” panel I’m on (yes, yes, they know I have a gray…

  • The best newspaper webcast I’ve seen yet: Ledger Live

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    Remember that time when I spent two hours out of every day, five days a week, writing, shooting, and editing a daily newspaper webcast? It stunk. It was no fun, a waste of time, and a poor way to engage online readers with video. No one — and I mean no one — wants to…

  • Interview: Chris Krewson on changes at Philly.com and the Inquirer

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    Last night, I took an unceremonious break from my self-imposed Romenesko diet. I had seen a stream of tweets and blog posts and shared links about something that sounded crazy coming out of Philadephia. The word going around, more or less, was that the Philadelphia Inquirer was going to hold stories back from the Web,…

  • The stenography ends here

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    A few takeaways from this morning’s presentations at the Knight Foundation meeting today in Chicago: The stenography ends here. The days of chasing cops and government down for raw data (crime blotter, etc.) to parse into 8 inch stories is coming to an end.  Everyblock and the Sunlight Foundation are a good start.  More projects…

  • You can be a journalist without a job at a mainstream news organization

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    That headline seems obvious, no? Then why is it that when journalists see layoffs, buyouts, and newspaper companies in trouble, they sigh and say “Should I stop wasting my time and start applying to advertising agencies?” Really? Here are a few ways you be a journalist without a full-time job at a mainstream news organization:…

  • It’s not the economy, stupid – Part 2

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    Mark Hamilton on why the “current crisis” in the news business might pay off on the other side of the chasm: “Even if the American economy turns around in a big way, newspaper health won’t magically improve, because of the internet, demographic and societal changes, etc. But newspaper companies are likely to find that their…

  • Innovation is messy

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    Michele McLellan has been doing some liveblogging of the Knight Digital Media Center’s Leadership Conference this week. Check out her notes from Krisztina Holly’s talk about innovation.  Holly mentioned seven myths about innovation; I’m going to flip the proverbial script and turn them into Seven Reasons Innovation is Messy: Focusing your vision on the core…