Invisible Inkling

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

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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 [...]

The journalism program we’ve all been waiting for

May 24, 2007 – 8:27 pm

The Knight Foundation handed out some money today, notably to Henry Jenkins and company at MIT and Mr. Holovaty, who is getting plenty of press for his jump from WaPo to startup.
But just a little lower on the list, you’ll find the future in the form of a grant to the Medill J-School at Northwestern [...]

Kicking it East Coast style

April 6, 2007 – 6:29 am

No, not me. I’m still firmly planted a short walk from Monterey Bay, but a group of SJSU students spent Spring Break in the land known casually as Back East in these parts.

Redesign interrupted, actual content to follow

March 2, 2007 – 8:22 am

As much as it pains me to do so, I’ll interrupt my ongoing monologue about this blog’s ongoing redesign (Almost done! IE6 sucks!) to bring you actual links to actual information that has nothing to do (as far as I know) with cute cats verbing ur nounz.
Bryan Murley interviews Rob Curley by IM over at [...]

The best thing about being on a team…

January 25, 2007 – 9:15 pm

…is that you don’t have to do everything yourself.
That’s what I’m finally learning after 3.5 months at my new job. Everyone has a specialty, and the best thing you can do is let everyone do what they do best, whether it’s design, code, manage, write, shoot, edit, record, or evangelize.
I spent my lunch hour [...]