Ryan Sholin

Tag: news organization

  • Are your readers a community?

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    I asked my Twitter followers what they think of substituting the word “community” for “readers” and I’m getting lots of good responses, many of them negative. Either I didn’t know “community” had much of a stigma, or I spent too long working with “community” newspapers to notice. Back then, it seemed like a great linguistic…

  • What’s the most important reason news organizations should link out to the wider Web?

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    http://www.publish2.com/tips/submit?reset=1&form_id=45 Hey RSS readers, click on through to answer the question if you don’t mind. Trying to gather some ideas for a post I’m working on. Thank you!

  • Innovation is easy: Hand the camera to the stuntman

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    So the wife and I were watching Bourne Ultimatum this weekend on DVD. (Yes, yes, I know, a few of you still know me as the former film student who was inspired to make movies because I knew I could do better than Lethal Weapon 2, but I still like a good action flick, OK?)…

  • Cross-pollinate or shrivel

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    I’m profoundly enthralled by things like rapid news-driven development in Django, and building a CMS that can switch from a beautiful feature layout to a Drudge-like breaking news linkbomb on a dime, and of course, leveraging the steady stream of free embeddable tools showing up online every day for your own newsy purposes. But none…

  • Dealing with the elephant: Build the software you need, then sell it.

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    This is the fourth post in a short series I’m pretty much done with about the business model for online news before I go back to my usual routine of pointing out the obvious to people wearing dark glasses.  The starting point, the givens in the equation, are listed here.  Suggest which windmill I should…

  • Generation gap

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    So I’ve been reading this book my Dad sent me a few weeks ago. It’s not that impressive so far (about 100 pages in).  The mentions in the title of MySpace and YouTube seem to have been tacked on in order to sell books, fittingly enough, and the authors make their political alignments clear from…

  • Standalones

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    Steve Yelvington, on the consequences of removing copy editors from the newspaper equation: “The dirty little secret of newspaper journalists is that a lot of them can’t write very well. That’s by no means universally true, but it’s true enough.” … Zac Echola, on his vision of a distributed and loosely joined newsroom: “The Internet…

  • Declare your independence from the curmudgeon tribe

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    More than a year ago, I wrote a blog post aimed at the curmudgeons in your newsroom. The ones who prefer hand-wringing editorials to reorganization plans. The ones who prefer complaining about bloggers to starting a blog. The ones who prefer whining about Google and craigslist and every other disruptive organization to becoming a disruptive…

  • Don’t even try to get that story on A1

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    Pullquote from a bit of morning reading at the Knight Digital Media Center’s News Leadership 3.0 blog: “I once consulted at a well-respected metro newspaper where several writers told me they tried to avoid pitching their stories for the front page because the ‘serial editing’ of these stories was such a hassle for them and…

  • Carnival folo

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    Some of the best posts I see coming out of this past weekend’s Carnival of Journalism are drifting into the blogosphere after the fact, as folks not on deadline analyze what we prattled on about for a few grafs each, who did the prattling, and how to muster up some real temporal freedom in newsrooms.…