Ryan Sholin

Tag: breaking news

  • The weatherman tweets

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    The weatherman tweets: How James Spann sparked a social news phenomenon. Excellent use of social media to get news out through any available channel in a storm. Gives me flashbacks to listening to Bryan Norcross on the radio during Hurricane Andrew in 1992 after the power went out.

  • Wired Journalists in Cedar Rapids weathered the floods

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    Remember back awhile when I mentioned how some seriously wired journalists were bubbling up to the surface at WJ.com? Yeah, I specifically called out Matt Neznanski and Jason Kristufek, didn’t I? Here’s Matt interviewing Jason about running the online operations at the Cedar Rapids Gazette during the floods: “Q: Had you already put into place…

  • 10 blogs your newspaper needs to rip off

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    I’m making a short list of frequently updated news blogs published by mainstream news organizations that post breaking news and link out to other sources. If you run a newspaper.com and you don’t have a blog like this to put together links and short updates, ask yourself why not. These are all great examples of…

  • How do you cover snow?

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    {In the spirit of this whole carnival atmosphere, I’m going to post links to my fellow circus acts as my mental and temporal bandwidth allow today.} Yoni Greenbaum has some suggestions for how a local newspaper might bring readers into the fold when it comes to covering the weather. Apparently, Back East you people have…

  • Map thyself

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    {Carnival! There’s a journalism blog carnival under way, hosted — if you can wrap your head around that concept — by the folks at Scribblesheet, some sort of collaborative writing tool I haven’t had a chance to look at yet. Here’s a review of their product at the Online Journalism Blog.} I’ve written pretty extensively…

  • Notes on breaking news

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    Last June in the most popular post ever on this blog, I said this: “You ignore new delivery systems at your own peril. RSS, SMS, iPhone, e-paper, Blackberry, widgets, podcasts, vlogs, Facebook, Twitter — these aren’t the competition, these are your new carriers. Learn how to deliver your content across every new technology that comes…

  • Obligatory Twitterquake post

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    So last night, around 8 p.m. California time, a rather large truck was idling in front of our building. That was what it felt like at first, then the wife and I looked at each other and said the magic word: “Earthquake.” Whoa. We scrambled for a few seconds, made some moves to grab the…