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Ryan Sholin

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  • I Heart The BBC & A POV Roundup

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    KQED radio (88.5 FM) out of San Francisco is my public radio station on the San Jose side of “the hill.” Two nights a week now, I drive home to Santa Cruz late enough to catch the BBC World Service report – it’s all international news, all the time. I love it. Not only because…

  • Trickle-Down Technology

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    In discussions about international communication, I often hear the argument that neither this “blogging” thing in specific nor the internet in general are not on the radar in places like Africa, where they “don’t even have phones, much less internet access” (or so goes the myth). The people who expound on this sort of angle…

  • Hi Everyone

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    Welcome, WashingtonPost.com and Dan Gillmor readers… I’ve been staring at code and textbooks all day instead of reading blogs and googling myself, so I didn’t notice all the traffic until Dan’s trackback hit my email a few minutes ago. I’m sure I’ll jump into the conversation…but at the moment I have seven minutes before my…

  • No time to busy, too talk.

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    First day of classes and I’ve got lots to do. Check out the newly redesigned Spartan Daily website to see what I’ve been up to these days.

  • Required Reading

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    If you have any interest at all in what’s going on in online journalism, new media technology, citizen journalism, or any of the other theoretical neighborhood hangouts near the intersection of Journalism and the Internet, Poynter Online’s E-Media Tidbits is a necessary daily read. Here’s the feed to drop straight into your favorite news reader,…

  • Another J-School Prof Wondering What To Teach Us

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    Denny Wilkins writes at Editor & Publisher: “I teach journalism for a living to college students now. So I think a great deal about the newsrooms and the journalistic life my students will eventually enter. Should I teach them how disheartening it became for me at the end? Or should I teach them about, as…

  • More Journalistic Heresy: Jay Rosen’s List of Things He Doesn’t Teach Anymore

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    Jay Rosen of PressThink has posted his list of “Things I Used To Teach That I No Longer Believe”. Jay writes: “I used to teach that the ethics of journalism, American-style, could be found in the codes, practices and rule-governed behavior that our press lived by. Now I think you have to start further back,…

  • Second Semester of Grad School Starts Next Week

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    Next week, Fall classes start, and I’ll be trying to wrap my brain around the following: MCOM 270: Communications Law and Policy. This course has the reputation of carving up students into cute little wood blocks covered in entrails. I plan to be challenged. MCOM 250: International Communications. Given the variety of ethnicities and cultures…

  • Necessary Navel-Gazing In The Venezuelan Press

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    In the current Columbia Journalism Review, John Dinges runs down the recent history of a derailed free press in Venezuela, but offers some signs of hope that a healthy dose of self-analysis is curing the problems of bias and inaccuracy when it comes to reporting on the government. Dinges writes: Many journalists in Venezuela, where…

  • Bored By The Bayosphere

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    I signed up for Dan Gillmor’s Bayosphere real quick (apparently I’m user #99), even though I was a little put off by the idea of a “Bay”-osphere and not a “Whole Damn World”-osphere. I thought it was pretty lame to confine the boundaries of the thing to the Bay Area, but I watched and waited.…