Ryan Sholin

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  • 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…

  • Dear Blogosphere, There’s more to newspapers than The New York Times

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    I’ve been holding back on this for a long time, and I write enough about the Web development team at nytimes.com enough to be held to this as well, but really, I’m incredibly tired of reading media and technology bloggers debate the future of news as if the only existing newspaper in the world is…

  • WordPress › Matt’s Community Tags « WordPress Plugins

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    “Very beta, in this version the intention is for this to allow a moderated community to assist in tagging primarily photographic content, image attachments and such.” WordPress › Matt’s Community Tags « WordPress Plugins

  • Home | American News Project

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    Lots of reader suggestions and even crowdfunding here for specific beats, if not necessarily specific stories. Home | American News Project

  • Building a local news site from scratch

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    [If you’re reading this in late April 2008, I’ve managed to post something on time for this month’s Carnival of Journalism, hosted by Yoni Greenbaum this time around.] Lately, when failing revenues and/or an ill-fated JOA results in a newspaper closing up shop, there’s talk of “what if” they continued publishing online, but I have…

  • Mercury falling

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    [NOTE: What follows is a view of the last two years of trouble at the San Jose Mercury News from my personal point of view, as a graduate student in the neighborhood, a reporter (and later as an editor) working for the same parent company, and even as a reader. I don’t pretend to know…

  • Work with us, people

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    GateHouse Media is hiring two reporters. Here’s the important bit from Boss Owens’ post on the matter: The ideal candidate: A recent college graduate (or graduating this spring) At least six months experience blogging Capable of shooting and editing his or her own video Ready to do more than sit in an office and make…

  • Community Audio Recording Project; Bringing Northampton To Life Online – Northamptonist

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    Call the phone number, say where you are, leave a message and it gets mapped here. Love this as a relatively easy way to get community audio online – an audio guestbook, really. Community Audio Recording Project; Bringing Northampton To Life Online – Northamptonist

  • Introducing WiredJournalists.com

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    At the end of 2007, Howard Owens* published a blog post outlining a year-long program he called 2008 objectives for today’s non-wired journalist. A few of the objectives: Howard soon started fielding e-mails and requests for guidance from reporters looking to take him up on his offer of a $100 Amazon gift certificate for the…

  • Debunking the coulda-shoulda-woulda myth of online news

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    I’m trying quite hard to stay out of the business of chasing after curmudgeons with a laptop in my hand, shouting “But you got it all wrong!” Trying. Quite. Hard. So let this be just a generic blanket response to a common misconception about the business of online news. The premise, as laid out in…