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  • Melanie Sill on Open Journalism

    This site exists mainly to host my 2011 open journalism paper, reflecting my work in news leadership and as a visiting journalism executive at USC Annenberg. These ideas informed content innovation and excellence at Southern California Public Radio and continue to propel me in 2017 as I move home to North Carolina. I’ll be working with others…

  • This blog on hiatus

    In case you’re looking: Follow me on Twitter @melaniesill and keep up with the KPCC newsroom at kpcc.org or our active social media accounts.  

  • Press protest: It’s a start

    As a board member at ASNE I’m glad the news leadership organization, along with APME and many others sent this letter to the White House protesting the exclusion of news photographers from a string of events involving President Obama. It’s a start; what else might be done to challenge the less obvious but pervasive infusion…

  • Twitter vs. “the press”: Let’s not go there

    Despite many attempts to put it to rest, the journalism discussion still hasn’t resolved “bloggers versus journalists,” a shorthand for cultural conflict over journalism’s past and future. Now we have a new iteration: Twitter versus the press, which comes up in nearly every major breaking news discussion. Today’s edition is a Mashable post by Samantha…

  • Stay tuned

    I’m redoing my home page, check back later.