Ryan Sholin

Category: Media

  • The community-directed reporter: Daniel Victor gears up to go mojo

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    From Daniel Victor comes news that he’s working on a new job description, and a new reporting beat: “If I can sell my editors on the concept, I would be the author and community manager of a new blog. My stated goal will be to have at least one originally reported story per day, usually…

  • Commenting survey results

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    For a couple years now, I’ve been working with editors, reporters, and commenters on news sites taking the following hypothesis as a given: Commenters will be the most civil in the place that is the most public. For example, I expected commenters on news stories, where more people could see their words, to be more…

  • Tools for News: Chris Amico’s new database of online news tools

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    Behind the scenes at Wired Journalists, a few of us have been talking for some time about the need for an all-encompassing database of online tools for news, featuring tutorials, examples, ratings, and reviews. Chris Amico has made a solid run at building out the guts of it, launching his Tools for News this week.…

  • A podcast in which I discuss the merits and limits of Ning with Pat Thornton

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    I spent 20 minutes or so talking about Wired Journalists and Ning with Pat Thornton last week for a BeatBlogging.org podcast. Here are some highlights from Pat’s list of questions: Would you choose Ning again if you could start over? How specific should a topic be for a Ning site to be specific? How many…

  • A quick survey about comments on your news site

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    I have a little theory. It’s my opinion that commenters — or anyone, really — is the most civil when they’re speaking in public and everyone can see who they are. So, I think that news site commenters/readers are most civil on news story comments, then blog posts, then message board threads.  When I popped…

  • SPJ’s News Gems blog to close?

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    Jon Marshall’s News Gems blog at SPJ.org has been a quiet, consistent resource, chronicling high-quality reporting for more than three years. Marshall is moving on to other endeavors: “As we reach the end of 2008, I wish I could say that things have gotten easier for journalists. Of course they haven’t. But after producing this…

  • Looking back: My year at the Santa Cruz Sentinel

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    For those of you unfamiliar with my personal and professional timeline, I worked at the Santa Cruz Sentinel from October 2006 through the end of September 2007, first in a position accurately titled Webmaster, and later as the Online Editor, working in a mostly bright, young newsroom in downtown Santa Cruz, blocks from the Pacific…

  • Wired Journalists in 2008: Were you in it to win?

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    Howard “yes, he’s my boss” Owens follows up on the December 2007 post that spawned Wired Journalists with an update as the year grinds to a burly, overwhelming close. (Well, it’s been that way the last couple weeks for me, at least.) Howard asks how wired you’ve become in 2008: The post stirred a lot…

  • Carnival of Journalism: Five positive predictions for new media in 2009

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    For this month’s Carnival of Journalism, Dave Cohn is asking for positive (if possible) predictions for the new media world of 2009. How about 5? Mobile video streaming goes mainstream: Probably tied to disaster/breaking news reporting from non-professionals, a la 9/11 blogs, the YouTube tsunami of 2004, Flickr bombings of 2005, and the livetweeted siege…

  • Is this the democratization of media or a Media Republic?

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    A massive new report from the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University takes on some of the most important questions about change in the world of journalism — and to be more precise, change in the world of information distribution, consumption, and participation. I talked with project leader Persephone Miel during a…