Ryan Sholin

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  • Colleges Chase as Cheats Shift to Higher Tech – New York Times

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    Story’s ho-hum, but that’s our very own Prof. Craig… Colleges Chase as Cheats Shift to Higher Tech – New York Times

  • At last, Spartan Daily Soundslides

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    The photo and online crews at the Spartan Daily have been quietly grinding away at getting more multimedia content running at www.thespartandaily.com this semester, and it’s paying off. Today, the Daily put up its first photo-slideshow-with-audio created with a program called Soundslides. It’s cheap and easy, and it makes for simple to post, dramatic presentations.…

  • Student media under fire

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    I’ve got a guest column in today’s Spartan Daily that elaborates on the dangers of the Hosty v. Carter decision, what State Assemblyman Leland Yee wants to do about it, and why we’re actually pretty safe on public campuses in sunny California. Here’s an excerpt from the column: “College newspapers often boast that they are…

  • How to cover the President

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    No, I didn’t cover the Bush-in-San-Jose event, but J-School photobloggerjournalist Daniel Esch was one of the Spartan Daily staff at Cisco last Friday with the Commander-in-Chief. Check out what Daniel has to say about covering W, Arnold, and friends.

  • Protection coming for California college media?

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    In today’s Spartan Daily, the student newspaper here at San Jose State University, former Daily executive editor John Myers reports that a California legislator has introduced a bill in the state assembly that would make it more difficult for university officials to censor campus media outlets. Myers wrote that Leland Yee, the sponsor of the…

  • SJSU blogger shout out time

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    There are a bunch of bloggers these days in the SJSU journalism program, and although I don’t regularly point out the ones who aren’t writing about media much, I do catch plenty of what they write in the feed vacuum known as my aggregator. So without further preamble… Andrew the “Soapbox Prophet” hasn’t posted since…

  • A lesson in covering breaking news on campus from the Daily Iowan

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    The first thing I thought when I heard a tornado hit the Iowa City and the University of Iowa last night was “I bet the Daily Iowan has video up.” Sure enough, the student newspaper has a package of stories, plus some fantastic tornado-at-night video, including shots of students watching and describing the scene. The…

  • A quick riff on objectivity

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    I’m not going to go at length about the End of Objectivity, or even the perils of objectivity, although I should get around to posting a little literature review and presentation I wrote on the topic awhile back. But here’s a good concrete example of how awkward it can be sometimes to include “both” sides…

  • Talking points for a visit to Journalism 132

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    [I’m sitting in on Prof. Greene’s information gathering classes this morning…] Hi everyone. I’m supposed to be providing some constructive criticism on your blog posts, but the odds are pretty good that I’ll be going off on a tangent or three, so here are links to a few things I figure I’ll be rambling on…

  • A pair of photojournalism events at SJSU

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    If you’re a photojournalist, an art photographer, or a J-School student interested in multimedia journalism, you should check out Dai Sugano’s talk Thursday April 13th at an SJSU NPPA event. Sugano shoots for the San Jose Mercury News and works on a small team of photographers, editors, and web producers putting together multimedia presentations at…