Ryan Sholin

Tag: innovation

  • Links that redefine news

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    Wednesday night, I’ll be speaking with Steve Sloan’s New Media class at San Jose State University. I’m planning to show off some of the best of your work. Yes, you. I’m looking for online news sites and projects that stray from the traditional definition of news. I’m assuming these journalism students get enough Gloom &…

  • Consumption spreads faster today – The New York Times

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    There’s a good graph here comparing the adoption of different technologies. Useful for presentations, school-related stuff. via kottke. (sidenote: the graphic credits Nicholas Felton, of amusing Annual Report lore.) Consumption spreads faster today – The New York Times

  • 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…

  • A vote for change…

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    We talk a lot in the circles I run in about a new skillset for reporters and about how a wired journalist in 2008 should be keeping up with the technologies and communities that are quickly looking like Michael Johnson in 1996, looking back at newspapers over their shoulder, smugly. Yoni Greenbaum walks right into…

  • Only hire the best.

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    From Yoni Greenbaum, on the topic of outsourcing applications, the division of print and online newsrooms, and the hiring of online journalists: “We all know that, increasingly, online is where the money is, but it will take talent to earn it. I would urge newspapers to make sure they’re paying their online employees appropriately; if…

  • Five ways to innovate today

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    A colleague looking for a few new ways to integrate free Web services into his newsroom asked me to chip in with a list of five, so here they are. A note to student journalists: These are all free and easy ways to get something new and different online, and they probably serve a need…

  • Web Editors Reveal Online Flops or Failures – E & P

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    Notes on failure: “But with those accomplishments and expansions have come no shortage of starts and stops, bumps, flops, and sometimes outright debacles.” Web Editors Reveal Online Flops or Failures – E & P

  • The innovation gap: Your advertising department could use a hand

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    So here we all are. In the newsroom, in j-school, in our little corner of the blogosphere, producing great journalism, training great journalism students, and pointing out fantastic examples of both to each other and our peers, doing our best to make the transition to online news. One problem. We forgot to bring the advertising…

  • 5 Quick Tips for Making Online Innovation Happen – web.aan.org

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    “Sometimes, thinking of a great meta-strategy is too-much – too overwhelming, too expensive, too far out of reach. Identify a small improvement that can be made, and get it done this week.” via Mindy. 5 Quick Tips for Making Online Innovation Happen – web.aan.org

  • Making innovation work at newspapers – Jay Small

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    This is a great high-level read for executives and publishers anywhere in the news business. Making innovation work at newspapers – Jay Small