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Ryan Sholin

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  • What are your “shining ideals” when it comes to citizen journalism?

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    Tom Grubisich’s article in the Online Journalism Review this week runs down a list of Citizen Journalism hubs and checks how things are turning out. (Be sure to read the comments for insta-reactions from the proprietors and users of some of the sites.) His thesis, after reviewing the sites, is that few, if any, live…

  • Hard News, Nothing Clever

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    As quick as I got my first byline in the Spartan Daily, I get my second. Busy day yesterday. I even got rear-ended getting onto 280. Busy day…

  • My First Byline

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    In today’s Spartan Daily, I appear with an opinion column. It’s a “guest column” – anyone can submit one to the editors (around 800 words, please) at thespartandaily@thespartandaily.com. Oh, and if you’d care to debate me, arrest me, call me a pinko commie bastard, or otherwise express your contrary viewpoint, you can leave feedback on…

  • Fantasy President Index, a la Weinberger

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    David Weinberger mulls over the number of fake/fantasy/fictional U.S. presidents on television and asks: How many TV shows about fictitious presidents do we need to get the taste of the current one out of our mouths for at least a few minutes? Sounds like a fun little research project for someone with more time on…

  • Tom Delay on the wrong side of Dystopia

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    I just noticed last Thursday’s New York Times sitting around the newsroom. This picture jumped out at me from the front page: photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images We’ve seen a thousand pictures of talking heads at press conferences, but something looks different in this one. Delay’s pout is a given, the wide angle/low angle seems…

  • Columnist Fired at UNC Daily Tar Heel Student Newspaper

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    Jillian Bandes, a columnist at the Daily Tar Heel, independent student newspaper of the University of North Carolina, was fired this week. Her Tuesday “Licensed to Jill” column addressed racial profiling, and contained such money quotes as “I want all Arabs to be stripped naked and cavity-searched if they get within 100 yards of an…

  • Best Google Maps Mashup Ever

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    Google Maps + U.S. Census data from 2000 = awesome tool. Find out what your neighborhood (or the neighborhood you report on) is like, street by street, block by block. via Poynter E-Media Tidbits

  • Journalist turns Blogger turns J-School Prof

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    The New York Times (reg. req’d) reports that the City University of New York has hired blogger and New Media guru Jeff Jarvis to head up a New Media program at the new CUNY Graduate School of Journalism. Hey Jeff, please be sure to blog the curriculum so we can play along at home. In…

  • One Man Gang: Kevin Sites to report for Yahoo

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    It’s happening. There’s been “convergence” talk about local news networks or newspaper websites switching to “one man band” models. The idea is this: send out a reporter with a digital video camera, a wireless-happy laptop, and a cell phone. *poof* Instant cost-cutting lack of a satellite truck and (d’oh!) cameraman. (Full disclosure: I don’t belong…

  • Why did the media know more than the government this week?

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    All week long, anyone reading a newspaper, listening to the radio, watching a television, or checking a blog in their RSS reader knew more than the President of the United States and his high-level staff seemed to know about what was going on in New Orleans, Gulfport, Biloxi, and everywhere else torn up by Hurricane…