Ryan Sholin

Tag: innovation

  • You have 17 nights left to Challenge yourself.

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    I remember where I was the first time I read about the Knight News Challenge and was inspired enough to blog about it. A tire shop.  This one: (Photo yanked from Google Maps Street View.) Seriously, it was late in September 2006 and I was sitting with my huge beast of a laptop in the…

  • Innovation is easy.

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    Here’s a PDF of the short presentation I made at SND in Las Vegas a couple weeks ago. It’s remarkably simple.  I think I waved my arms a lot to fill up my five minutes. This presentation goes well with the list of mostly free online news tools I posted a couple weeks ago, as…

  • My obstacles to innovation question, abandoned and rediscovered

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    From my living room at the crack of dawn on Sunday, getting ready to catch my flight to SNDVegas, it seemed like a good idea to give myself a reporting assignment. I said that I would ask lots of people a question, on video, and post their replies. Well, fail.  Epic fail.  Why?  Because, frankly,…

  • Check out my online news toolbox

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    I finally finished a basic Tools page to start a list of some of the basic, mostly-free, mostly-embeddable applications that I recommend for quick and simple Web production. It’s not intended to be all-encompassing; it’s just a short list of things I find useful.  You might find them useful, too. But if you have any…

  • The question I’m going to ask everyone at SND and APME

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    I’m off in a few minutes to the airport to SND and APME in Las Vegas for a few nights. Here’s the plan I’m cooking up for a little video interview project: Carry my point & shoot camera. Ask lots of people I meet to answer one question on video. Post all the answers. Edit…

  • See you in Vegas?

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    I can’t believe it’s Friday already, which means I’m just a couple days away from hopping a flight to Las Vegas for the massive SND/APME conference. Check out the schedule of speakers at SND for starters and drool: DeVigal. Curley. Veen. The “Young Voices” panel I’m on (yes, yes, they know I have a gray…

  • The ultimate guide to newspaper curmudgeon talking points — Eat Sleep Publish

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    Hahahahahaha! The ultimate guide to newspaper curmudgeon talking points — Eat Sleep Publish

  • Innovation is messy

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    Michele McLellan has been doing some liveblogging of the Knight Digital Media Center’s Leadership Conference this week. Check out her notes from Krisztina Holly’s talk about innovation.  Holly mentioned seven myths about innovation; I’m going to flip the proverbial script and turn them into Seven Reasons Innovation is Messy: Focusing your vision on the core…

  • Small Newspapers Can Lead the Way – Readership Institute

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    A good rundown of how “small” newspapers are innovating online, with more than the usual suspects. Every newspaper I deal with is smaller than these. Small Newspapers Can Lead the Way – Readership Institute

  • Next Newspaper

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    Funny thing about the newspaper business. If you’re interested in innovation, you find yourself constantly trying to demonstrate the present to people with their feet (and desks, workflow, and hierarchy) planted firmly in the past. And while The Future of Newspapers mostly gets ink for being bleak, the future of news does not blink, or…