In 2019, I’ll be asking myself one question about everything I do: Is this work core, edge, or fringe? Core work is everything that goes into the central pro...

Journalists like to say that we hold powerful people to account. But are we being honest and accountable about the power we exert? Journalists have power. Re...

Journalism’s public trust problem isn’t going away. As the war on truth escalates, news organizations are going to have to counterattack on multiple fronts t...

Nobody loves their content management system. It’s a stubborn truism that’s persisted over the 20-plus years I’ve worked in digital journalism. Not long ago,...

The profusion of newsworthy events, the unsustainable growth in personal news consumption, and the decline of online advertising will spur more fatigued news...

Local news will be the key driver for the future of news and journalism in 2019. As 2018 highlighted many issues and challenges with local news coverage, at ...

Public funding for journalism?!?! The shock! The horror! Got that knee-jerk reaction out of your system? Great. Because 2019 will be the year that more gover...

This year we saw media companies help you register to vote; tell you how to stop climate change; vet charitable organizations for you after Hurricane Florenc...

This year, newsrooms will double-down on something that we normally don’t love to think about: structure and process. After getting burned by platforms the l...

A year of wrenching consolidation in the industry is ahead as venture capital runs out of patience with media investment and revenue flows almost solely to t...

“Nobody has any attention span anymore. Least of all anyone under 40.” Until a few years ago, it seemed that virtually all media watchers, and media makers, ...

What stopped the almost-done McClatchy purchase of Tribune Publishing? Two familiar words: Michael Ferro. Tribune and McClatchy offer competing narratives of...

The core crisis of journalism is not about business models, quality, ethics, or trust. It is that news, the heart of journalism, is dying. It is losing its c...

Face to face. In 2019, audiences will define the sorts of relationships they want with their media, and they’ll increasingly demand real-world interactions. ...

Black holes. Found all over, these invisible gaping maws, demiurgic functionaries of our universe, have a deceptive impresence. They are space stalkers known...

Managing the daily onslaught of information is among the most urgent challenges of our digital age. Journalists struggle to cope with an overwhelming torrent...

Things are going to get worse before they get better. Consolidation, mergers, and layoffs will continue to decimate existing local news organizations as stoc...

As humans we are drawn to stories. This year we were introduced to complex stories rich in character and subject matter diversity on one of the most adored a...

Local news organizations are so deeply intertwined with the well-being of their communities that we often don’t know how essential they are until they’re gon...

Loyalty goes two ways for news organizations. Readers show them loyalty, but increasingly news organizations are learning how important it is to be loyal to ...

In a nutshell, the history of digital journalism has gone like this: In phase one, legacy organizations started websites, and aggregators like The Huffington...

A few days ago, YouTube star Pewdiepie recommended his 75 million subscribers follow a YouTube account that was associated with promoting alt-right and anti-...

Media wants your attention. You’re getting value too, but mostly it cares about the attention. We’re well informed, but there’s also all these other side eff...

There is a confluence of phenomena happening in media, journalism, and the digital world that is opening a lane for a particular type of media professional t...

I’m not sure if this is wishful thinking, a prescription or a prediction. But I hope and expect that 2019 will be the year that national news outlets, those ...

About three years ago, I was sitting in a day-long workshop at the National Press Club with journalists, academics, funders ,and think-tank types. Toward the...

We are allegedly far beyond the era of the absolute Chinese wall between editorial and business, that time when it was unheard of for the newsroom to speak o...

A core component of the journalistic enterprise is helping people understand what they cannot directly experience: decision-making in Congress, fighting a wa...

I’m going to say something that’s worth repeating: Representation matters. (Read all about it here and here.) We owe it to our audiences. Journalists are emp...

News organizations have gotten very good at measuring things like impressions, reach, and engagement. We are great at determining who is reading our content,...

…and I am typing this in the new Gutenberg editor. The post This blog is now running WordPress 5.0 appeared first on Ryan Sholin.

One of the great mysteries of my career has been that otherwise bright and talented folks in B2B publishing express an interest in working with me. Even more...

I believe Anita Hill The post Youth Against Fascism appeared first on Ryan Sholin.

We left the dog and the house and the garden behind, told them all to be good, and took off up Route 15, across the Potomac, retracing our usual path past Cu...

In 2010, the first World Cup where I really paid attention to my own country’s team and cheered them on in a more-than-casual way, I was crushed after they...

I’ve been trying to read more. Books. Not just staring at my phone. Unless there’s a book on it! I read a decent percentage of Stephenson’s Baroque Cycle tha...

I posted something on this blog a few days ago. That's become an exceedingly rare event. This blog has been largely dormant for a very long time. And with go...

I woke this morning with a need to write. There's nothing unusual about that. I wake most mornings with a need to write. But what was unexpected today was th...

Storify is over. I’m old enough to remember working for a startup that built tools to curate social media posts into news articles before Storify did a much,...

I’m starting a new job today as an Enterprise Growth Engineer on the WordPress VIP team at Automattic. I’m a little bit excited. If you know me at all, you k...

I’m presenting this at a Poynter event called Measuring Journalism on Nov. 10, 2017. My slides are available here, but I needed some blogging exercise, too. ...

I’ve been at Chalkbeat for more than 15 months now, working remotely on a permanent basis for the first time, after two six-month stretches at the beginning ...

In Hungary, not-for-profit news site Átlátszó has launched a full-time data team to create a wide range of data visualisations and data-driven stories. Amand...

May I interest you in another story? Because, really, I’m getting kinda sick of this whole viral video thing. And, no, I’m not linking to it again. You can s...

Hello. I’m a 62-year old man, and I’m here to give you social media advice. Best. Opening. Stand-up. Comedy. Line. Ever. But seriously folks… How I use socia...

As of this morning, the viral video I “starred” in has 7.7 million views and almost 70,000 retweets. My Twitter feed has calmed down. It’s been at least 24 h...

Early each semester in my MED130 Fundamentals of Media Convergence class I ask this question: What are you doing here spending money when you could be in Mia...

The latest in my series of FAQ posts follows on from the last one, in response to a question from an MA student at City University who posed the question “Do...

Is going viral good or bad? Yes. And I assign students to do it. I have a culminating assignment in my MED130 Fundamentals of Media Convergence class. It’s c...

The latest in my series of FAQ posts comes in response to questions from a number of MA students at City University who emailed to ask “Can data journalism i...

In July an aggregator of data journalists from Spain and Latin America was launched under the name Periodista de Datos. Four months later, Maria Crosas Batis...

I didn’t really get around to being thankful for much of anything on Thanksgiving, except for being thankful I stayed off the highways on such a high traffic...

A new email newsletter has been launched by Brazilian journalist and journalism lecturer Moreno Cruz Osório to provide a weekly roundup of key research, deve...

I have never asked you for anything. Until today. The post Letter to My Network: Join The Correspondent appeared first on PressThink.

My mobile phone sure does not like the city website. The new mayor says a new website is in the works… and meanwhile he uses Facebook for announcements, pict...

We have had our first ice storm of the winter here in Southwest Virginia. In an entirely unrelated development, I injured my right hand last month so I’m pla...

Here’s the 2018-2019 reel of work by Carbon Trace Productions. Since 2015, we’ve completed six documentary films including the award-winning feature Downtown...

It's called the "citizens agenda" approach in campaign journalism. I know, dorky name. It was tried. And it worked. The post Election coverage: the road not ...

It may help explain. The post Next time you wonder why New York Times people get so defensive, read this. appeared first on PressThink.

When it comes to news websites’ referral traffic, Google beats Facebook hands-down, with the search giant accounting for 40% compared to Facebook’s 26%. And ...

Without a proper academic study, it’s difficult to say just how much the passing along of fake news (mostly by linking and tweeting) is the result of not kno...

LiveCity is a new data-driven project from Le Parisien that aims to bring together a range of public data sources to serve audiences across its webpages and ...

Joonyper from acline on Vimeo. “Joonyper” — a film by Carbon Trace Productions — won Best Documentary/ Reality Short at the Ozark Mountain Webfest.

It reconfigures how a live public stands toward the makers of journalism. The post What The Correspondent adds to the American press appeared first on PressT...

Updated from time to time. Ranked by urgency. The post A current list of my top problems in pressthink appeared first on PressThink.

These are the problems in pressthink that most concern me now. A live list. Updated from time to time. Ranked by urgency. 1. Across Europe and the United Sta...