Ryan Sholin

Category: Media

  • Carnival folo

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    Some of the best posts I see coming out of this past weekend’s Carnival of Journalism are drifting into the blogosphere after the fact, as folks not on deadline analyze what we prattled on about for a few grafs each, who did the prattling, and how to muster up some real temporal freedom in newsrooms.…

  • May Carnival of Journalism

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    I’m jumping the gun on putting up this post to serve as the center ring for the May Carnival of Journalism. Earlier today, I asked the list of carnivalers to consider answering this question at the core of driving innovation at mainstream news organizations: What should news organizations stop doing, today, immediately, to make more…

  • The Carnival of Journalism is coming to this here town

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    In some alternate universe back in January, I thought this would be a cool weekend to host the Carnival of Journalism.  That’s just crazy talk, but nevertheless, I hope to serve you well as ringmaster this Memorial Day weekend. The party gets started Saturday and Sunday. Check out last month’s carnival, hosted by Yoni Greenbaum,…

  • Expand your media blogosphere today

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    Like many readers of blogs about the news business, I started big. As in, with the big guys, the heavy hitters, the bloggers who showed up in Romenesko and were hard to ignore. The Jays and Jeffs and Dans of the media blog world. I’ve dramatically expanded my reading list since then, but meeting journalists…

  • Building a local news site from scratch

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    [If you’re reading this in late April 2008, I’ve managed to post something on time for this month’s Carnival of Journalism, hosted by Yoni Greenbaum this time around.] Lately, when failing revenues and/or an ill-fated JOA results in a newspaper closing up shop, there’s talk of “what if” they continued publishing online, but I have…

  • Culture shock

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    Trying to turn the tide of the decline of newspapers from the inside involves a great deal of evangelizing and pontificating and running through sets of common scenarios with folks who are still firmly planted in the Paper business rather than the News business. That’s no surprise. And it’s no surprise that top-down, do-it-this-way mandates…

  • How I have used the print edition, historically speaking

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    My personal reasons for picking up an ink-on-paper newspaper, whether from off the lawn or the kitchen table or the newsstand or the stack in the newsroom. For reference purposes, I grew up in a household with a Miami Herald subscription, which explains the details of 4, 5, 7, 9 and 10 to some extent.…

  • 10 blogs your newspaper needs to rip off

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    I’m making a short list of frequently updated news blogs published by mainstream news organizations that post breaking news and link out to other sources. If you run a newspaper.com and you don’t have a blog like this to put together links and short updates, ask yourself why not. These are all great examples of…

  • I like it when you’re angry

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    So I’m the last person in the world to blog about AngryJournalist.com, a good (albeit a little twisted) deed done by Kiyoshi Martinez to give folks a place to vent in public, anonymously. While I would certainly prefer that you do something potentially productive with your time other than whine about how little of it…

  • It’s not the economy, stupid

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    I’m sorry, but every time a newspaper executive discussing layoffs and buyouts blames things like “a drastic economic slump and the meltdown of the Bay Area housing market” I laugh. Are you kidding?  Is that a joke? Your profits are shrinking because The World Has Passed You By. For more than ten years newspaper companies…