YOUR GRID INFO ℹ US-CENT-SWPP LOW INTENSITY
GRID-AWARE DESIGN ℹ

Ryan Sholin

Category: Media

  • Salam Pax audio is online

    —

    by

    Ryan Sholin
    in , ,

    One of the Salam Pax talks in San Jose last month is now online as a Commonwealth Club podcast here. It looks like the audio will also be on KQED (88.5 FM in the Bay Area). You can find the story I wrote for the Daily on his talk at SJSU here. An excerpt from…

  • Protection coming for California college media?

    —

    by

    Ryan Sholin
    in ,

    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

    —

    by

    Ryan Sholin
    in , ,

    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…

  • Bob Cauthorn on how to organize information at your online edition

    —

    by

    Ryan Sholin
    in ,

    Will Sullivan, interactive projects editor at the Palm Beach Post, reports at his Journerdism blog on a webcast of a talk Bob Cauthorn gave at UC Berkeley in March. Cauthorn is a former VP for digital media at the SF Chronicle. A quick search on his name will throw gobs of good articles, lectures and…

  • No really, listen to your readers

    —

    by

    Ryan Sholin
    in

    Jeff Jarvis runs down another list of advisements to local news organizations trying to stay relevant online. “7. Start a Digg edition. Go ahead and make your front page. But allow readers to tell you what they think is most important on their front page and let that guide your resource and news judgments.” I…

  • A quick riff on objectivity

    —

    by

    Ryan Sholin
    in

    I’m not going to go at length about the End of Objectivity, or even the perils of objectivity, although I should get around to posting a little literature review and presentation I wrote on the topic awhile back. But here’s a good concrete example of how awkward it can be sometimes to include “both” sides…

  • This boring headline is full of keywords

    —

    by

    Ryan Sholin
    in

    I’m having fun reading the headlines on all the blog posts that refer to a New York Times story from a few days ago. The story, which sported the headline “This Boring Headline Is Written For Google,” sort of half-explained the fact that online editors are now writing their headlines to specifically appeal to a…

  • Billionaire Burkle is my kind of newspaper tycoon

    —

    by

    Ryan Sholin
    in

    If you haven’t been following the saga of the Knight Ridder orphans, the 12 newspapers back up for sale after being purchased by McClatchy, you’re missing a great show. Early last week, the LA Times reported that the bid backed by billionaire Ron Burkle might be the frontrunner in the race to buy some or…

  • The print edition – y’know – for kids

    —

    by

    Ryan Sholin
    in ,

    Fellow SJSU grad student Patrick Dwire has a great cover story in this week’s Santa Cruz Good Times, one of our intrepid alternative weeklies here in the Cruz. Patrick takes a look at what newspapers all over the country are doing to try and hook the 18-24 set. (Note to self: I’m not the target…

  • Katie, Katie, Katie: Why the anchor is still important

    —

    by

    Ryan Sholin
    in , ,

    A handful of New Media pundits have been questioning the wisdom CBS had in hiring Katie Couric away from the Today Show to plant her in the anchor’s chair on the evening news. Granted, CBS is spending gobs of money they could be putting into other projects, but think about this: With more unbundled media…