Invisible Inkling

Ryan Sholin on the future of newspapers, online news and journalism education.

All About Education

Links that redefine news

February 19, 2008 – 12:24 pm

Wednesday night, I’ll be speaking with Steve Sloan’s New Media class at San Jose State University.
I’m planning to show off some of the best of your work.
Yes, you.
I’m looking for online news sites and projects that stray from the traditional definition of news.
I’m assuming these journalism students get enough Gloom & Doom handwringers from other [...]

Ahead of the game

October 27, 2007 – 7:09 am

Some journalism school students have reason to worry. They’re a few months away from graduating in 2008 with a print-and-A1-photo skillset circa 1988.
But five clips and a smile won’t get you much of a competitive edge these days in an increasingly crowded job market for reporters with straight-ahead text skills.
Mindy McAdams drives that point [...]

A few ways to teach the Pro side of Pro-Am Journalism to J-School students

October 10, 2007 – 9:36 am

Jay Rosen was just on stage talking about NewAssignment.net (see his lessons learned post at PressThink), and one thing that comes up is training on both the Pro and the Amateur side to smooth the process of writing/editing stories and gathering/parsing data.
So how can J-School students who need to learn these new skills (this would [...]

Spartan Love

August 16, 2007 – 10:56 pm

Kyle Hansen is skipping town, headed for Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive to work with Rob Curley. The Spartan Daily’s loss is internology’s gain.

Intern season means intern blog season

July 10, 2007 – 7:08 am

As much as I might wish for a blog intern, I’m talking about interns at your newspapers with blogs of their own (not someone I hired to read my feeds and post wittier-than-thou Tweets for $10/hour).
Let’s start out at a major metro in the west, where an SJSU student on the sports copy desk is [...]