Ryan Sholin

Tag: Media

  • PressThink: The People Formerly Known as the Audience

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    “The people formerly known as the audience are those who were on the receiving end of a media system that ran one way, in a broadcasting pattern, with high entry fees and a few firms competing to speak very loudly while the rest of the population listened PressThink: The People Formerly Known as the Audience

  • Get a job

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    It looks like the SJSU J-School has sprouted a new blog: jmcjobs. For now it’s a list of internship opportunites, which are usually posted on a bulletin board or two in the hallway of the building. Three cheers for posting things in an RSS feed instead of a hallway! Here’s a pleasant gig: The Santa…

  • Eat The Press | The Huffington Post

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    It’s all about the media. Lots and lots of it. Good stuff, too. Eat The Press | The Huffington Post

  • Does your college newspaper cover the blog beat?

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    Bryan Murley at Reinventing College Media lays out some instructions for covering the campus blogosphere. I think it’s a good idea, but I look at it another way: Reading blogs written by students, faculty, and alumni should be a way to find story ideas — not necessarily a beat in itself — unless, of course,…

  • Computer assisted reporting 2.0

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    Now that the SJSU J-School is cooking up a New Media class for next semester, which I’ve suggested should be mostly a practical lab for future online editors, it’s time to start thinking about the next step in revising the curriculum. Which, of course, it’s not my job to do, but I haven’t let that…

  • More talk about new media classes

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    Steve Sloan has posted the second half of the Pizzacast, a discussion about a New Media class to be offered next semester in SJSU’s J-School. I’m going to stand by my idea that this class should be a training ground for Online Editors going on to student media, in the way that the 133 Copy…

  • Sending you away so you’ll come back later

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    Well folks, I’m pretty much all blogged out on the whole New Newspapers thing for now. I’ve started to feel like a broken record playing a recording of a broken record where lots of people tell each other why they need to change how they run their businesses. I’m still reading plenty of on-topic stuff,…

  • I’ll have to get back to Africa on my own dime

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    Looks like I won’t be spending any quality time with Nick Kristof anytime soon. Casey Parks, a j-school grad student at the University of Missouri, won the trip to Africa with the New York Times columnist to report/blog/videoblog for NYT and MTV. Read her essay and the musings of the other 12 finalists.

  • Pizzacasting for answers

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    I had an interesting time last night at the Pizzacast session. It was a small group with a wide range of interests (journalism, public relations, computer science, theater, business, aggregators), and the conversation ranged wildly from the on-topic question of what to teach in the upcoming New Media class at SJSU’s j-school, to some pleasantly…

  • Geek pizza dinner tonight

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    Just a reminder: There’s a geek dinner tonight for anyone and everyone interested in talking about the New Media (lab?) class being offered next semester at SJSU’s School of Journalism and Mass Communications. If you’re an undergrad or grad student planning on taking classes in the department next semester, stop by for a slice (and/or…