Ryan Sholin

Category: Media

  • Recommended social media guidelines for reporters

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    Be honest. Be yourself. Assume that everything you say is public, even if you say it privately. If it’s not clear to you what’s public and what’s private, don’t participate. Inspired by recent discussion about the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and New York Times guidelines for reporters using social media.

  • Onward: My new job at Publish2

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    I am extremely excited to let you know that I’m starting a new job on Monday, as Director of News Innovation at Publish2.  I’ll be working for Scott Karp, who I’ve been following since I started blogging back in 2005, and with a team of top-notch online news thinkers, evangelists, and developers. What does a…

  • On IdeaLab: Reporter-turned-blogger covers the island of Alameda

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    Over at the PBS IdeaLab blog, I interviewed Michele Ellson, editor and publisher at The Island, a local news site devoted to covering the city of Alameda, which sits to the west of Oakland in San Francisco Bay. (Yes, it’s an island.) Michele left newspapers in 2007 and launched The Island in early 2008, continuing…

  • 10 little white lies you hear about the future of newspapers

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    Print is dead. Journalism is dying. Paid online content will save newspapers. No one will pay for online news. You haven’t tried anything. You should try everything. We’ve tried everything. We’ve certainly tried that before, and it didn’t work then, so it won’t work now. This is all corporate media’s / Google’s / Craig’s /…

  • San Francisco

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    Yesterday, news broke that Hearst will close the San Francisco Chronicle if it a) can’t dramatically reduce costs (read as: cut payroll in half) or b) find a buyer (it won’t). Analysis: Alan Mutter Mark Potts Ken Doctor Although it is likely that you will hear and see a copious amount of handwringing in the…

  • Be the platform, use the platform, syndicate the platfom

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    A lot of talk about platforms for news these days, no? A sampling: Joey Baker at CoPress defines one of the many things that “newspaper platform” could mean to a local news site: “…taking lessons from Gawker, Slashdot and the New York Times, and aggregating everything. If there’s a story online that’s relevant to your…

  • If I had the time, I would write about Digital Sunlight, Bring a Professor Night, and BarCamp NewsInnovation

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    Publish2 begins a Digital Sunlight campaign, encouraging citizen journalists to contribute information about stimulus spending to a pool of coverage. Next Sunday is “Bring A Professor Night” at CollegeJourn, a new-ish weekly live chat about the state of student media and j-school. BarCamp NewsInnovation is growing quickly, and about as distributed as can be expected,…

  • Quick interview for BCNIPhilly

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    Sean Blanda hit me up today for a quick attendee interview for BCNIPhilly — that’s BarCamp NewsInnovation for the uninitiated, and you should show up to tell everyone about that cool project you’ve been busting your butt on for the last N days, weeks, or months. Here’s the tough last question from Sean: “Final question,…

  • Wiki what? Wiki who? Wiki why?

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    Carlos Virgen rounds up some thoughts on wiki use by news organizations, but I always get the feeling that most reporters and editors stop reading at the word “wikitorial,” freak out, and hide under the desks. Still here? Good. Carlos has a great idea about using a wiki as a “contextual archive” for related stories.…

  • Why commenting on news sites still stinks: Further notes on the commenting survey results

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    The most striking conclusion I’ve come to based on the results of the commenting survey that 49 online news folks answered over the last week or two was this: Commenting on news stories is still broken.  Busted.  Stinks.  It’s a mudpit.  Still. I’ve been writing about how to improve commenting on news sites for a…