Carnival of Journalism: Check it out

If you’re a consumer of ideas about the future of the news business and you haven’t paid a visit to the Carnival of Journalism hosted by Adrian Monck this month … well, do. (And if you’re not sure what a blog carnival is, you can find out in this Wikipedia entry.) Last month, the carnival was hosted by ScribbleSheet, and you can keep following the action month by month here.

A few of the more interesting thoughts floated so far for January:

Ryan Sholin:

Set up a Flickr account for your newsroom and make sure everyone knows how to upload to it. This is for more than just pictures that run in your paper or on your site, this is to post stuff from parties and conferences and events. Humanize your newsroom; make your readers feel like they can pick up the phone and call you.

Yoni Greenbaum:

An approach that I’ve encouraged my reporters to use is to publish their own email newsletter, call it “[insert reporters name]’s Weekly Update.”

Erica Smith (on the importance of SMS):

Our youngest readers, or those we want as our youngest readers, are used to and demand immediacy. They communicate in short burst, whether texting, IMing, Twittering, whatever. They embrace technology, and manipulate it to do more.

There’s lots more good stuff in there, too. Enjoy.