Ryan Sholin

Category: Media

  • Sunday morning links: Data, DocumentCloud, and the Obama Bounce for news

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    A few things I haven’t had time yet to dig deeper on, but maybe you will: Eric Ulken offers of 10 pieces of advice at OJR, based on his experience building the data desk at the LA Times: “4. Go off the reservation: No matter how good your IT department is, their priorities are unlikely…

  • BarCamp: NewsInnovation

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    Jason Kristufek has opened up a wiki for BarCamp / NewsInnovation: “The idea is to get energetic, tech-savvy, open-minded individuals who embrace the chaos in the media industry because the ability to do really cool things still exist. We also need find those people outside of our industry who love to consume news and information…

  • On IdeaLab: The Pitch mashes up journalists, bloggers, and social media types in Seattle

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    Over at IdeaLab, an IM interview with Jason Preston of Eat Sleep Publish about a series of events he’s organizing called “The Pitch.” The premise?  Put together some of the smartest, most engaged, passionate thinkers about the changing media landscape in a room, buy them a few drinks, and let the conversation flow. Jason: “And…

  • November Carnival of Journalism: What would the Obama campaign do?

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    Pretty much every single industry that involves convincing consumers that your product, or idea, or business is a great idea has been strafed with a raft of “What [Your Industry Here] Can Learn From Barack Obama” blog posts lately, and journalism is no exception. This month’s Carnival of Journalism, which I’m late for due to…

  • Everything you know about online news design is wrong?

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    Over at Signal vs. Noise, Jason Fried explains “why the Drudge Report is one of the best designed sites on the Web.” “The Drudge Report usually leads with a “font size=+7” ALL CAPS headline in Arial. Sometimes it’s italicized. Sometimes, for something big big, he’ll cap it off with the infamous siren. [snip] Stories aren’t…

  • Further notes on how investigative journalism continues in online-only news organizations

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    From a New York Times story on VoiceOfSanDiego.org and other onlne-only local news organizations doing original reporting and investigative journalism: The people who run the local news sites see themselves as one future among many, and they have a complex relationship with traditional media. The say that the deterioration of those media has created an…

  • Who’s hiring? Blogs.

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    Josh Marshall of Talking Points Memo on plans for 2009: “So January will usher in a new Democratic Ascendancy in Washington. And here at TPM we believe we are uniquely qualified to chronicle it. So to that end we are hiring two new reporter-bloggers to be based in Washington, DC, one assigned to the White…

  • Bought out? Laid off? TypePad has your bailout.

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    The TypePad Journalist Bailout Program: Recently bought out, laid off, or otherwise relieved of your daily newspapering duties?  SixApart’s TypePad blog service is offering a free account that usualy costs money, advertising services, and promotion at Blogs.com. “Your blog can act as a clip file for your best pieces, whether you’re looking for freelance work…

  • Let’s go BARcamp on the API CEO meetup

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    Know what Foo Camp is?  Know what BarCamp is? OK, now that we have that out of the way, Jason Kristufek is calling for a “summit” of future-of-news hotshots/thinkers as a counterpoint to the recent American Press Institute mostly-executives meeting of the minds. Sounds like a BarCamp to me.  Like Jason, I’m not entirely sure…

  • If you’re not playing, you’re just working.

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    Daniel Sato is one of a circle of photojournalists I met at San Jose State University while I was spending a lot of time there working on my (still-but-not-for-long) unfinished graduate degree. Now that whole crew has spread out from the Bay Area across the country and in at least two cases, into Southeast Asia.…