Ryan Sholin

Tag: Online News

  • Manifestology

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    {In the spirit of the journalism blog carnival, I’m linking to posts by some of my fellow barkers on display today as I have time.} Pat Thornton lets fly with a manifesto + examples in “The Web is the greatest thing to ever happen to journalism.” A clip: “Go local – Many papers are adding…

  • How do you cover snow?

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    {In the spirit of this whole carnival atmosphere, I’m going to post links to my fellow circus acts as my mental and temporal bandwidth allow today.} Yoni Greenbaum has some suggestions for how a local newspaper might bring readers into the fold when it comes to covering the weather. Apparently, Back East you people have…

  • 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…

  • “We know what to do, but we can’t get it done.”

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    To elaborate on the somewhat derisive one-liner (about Jay Rosen’s New Assignment plan for beat blogging with a social network) that I dropped into a post a couple days ago… I think it’s a great idea. It will work. Good stories will come out of the project. And that’s where I get off the bus,…

  • Obligatory Twitterquake post

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    So last night, around 8 p.m. California time, a rather large truck was idling in front of our building. That was what it felt like at first, then the wife and I looked at each other and said the magic word: “Earthquake.” Whoa. We scrambled for a few seconds, made some moves to grab the…

  • Brainstorms, in no particular order

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    Ideas bubbling to the surface on a sunny Saturday… Has Joe Weiss ever thought about building a hosted Soundslides service, where users could upload their publish-to-web folder and get a friendly piece of embed code spit back out at them? Plus, of course, anyone could browse through any uploaded Soundslides show, and embed it on…

  • On the Internet, nobody knows you’re an editor

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    Try as you might to control the home page of a news site, to set the agenda, to drive readers to the stories you think are most important, readers can find what they want on the Web without your help.

  • Five ways to produce online news without asking the web guy for help

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    You don’t know what it’s like for the web guy at a newspaper. All day long, requests and ideas funnel in his direction, with no end in sight, and little help. Web guys, this is for you. Reporters, listen up. Here are five ways you can put together something wonderful for the web without asking…

  • It’s high time to send our pigeons out into the diaspora

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    Jeremy Wagstaff on the outdated definition of ‘news’: “We journalists have been schooled in a kind of journalism that goes back to the days when a German called Paul Julius Reuter was delivering it by pigeon. His problem was a simple one: getting new information quickly from A to B. It could be stock prices;…

  • If you don’t get unbundled media, you’re not selling attention*

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    Command-and-control, top-down, masthead mass media is dead. Seriously. It’s over, and the readers/users/viewers won. And without getting all “Information wants to be free,” I’ll just say that if you don’t get what Howard** and Zac are talking about here, it’s time for you to start understanding it. Take Howard’s advice, young journalists: “Blogs should be…