Invisible Inkling

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

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Chicago today

July 22, 2008 – 8:58 am

Sitting in a Starbuck’s after a good walk around the neighborhood, plotting to blog from my phone today if this fancy new WordPress app is up to the task.
I’ll be in the Knight Foundation sessions all day — lunchtime seems like a good time to meet up with anyone at UNITY but not in the [...]

Chicago tomorrow

July 21, 2008 – 9:18 am

Later tonight, I’ll be on my way to Chicago for a Knight Foundation meeting ahead of the UNITY 2008 conference.
I’m psyched to see the News Challenge posse, but of course if you’re in town for UNITY and want to cross paths on Tuesday, drop me a line or better yet, DM me on Twitter.
So far, [...]

ReportingOn FAQ

July 14, 2008 – 4:49 pm

Over at IdeaLab, I’ve posted the answers to some of the most frequently asked questions about ReportingOn.
Like this:
Q: So what am I supposed to say about the story I’m working on?
A: As much or little as you want. Maybe you just want to mention something general about your story and tag your update with your [...]

Generation gap

July 8, 2008 – 10:41 pm

So I’ve been reading this book my Dad sent me a few weeks ago.
It’s not that impressive so far (about 100 pages in).  The mentions in the title of MySpace and YouTube seem to have been tacked on in order to sell books, fittingly enough, and the authors make their political alignments clear from the [...]

Stay sane

July 7, 2008 – 10:29 am

Well, for a laid-back holiday weekend, that sure was a lot of hand-wringing and teeth-gnashing over the future of newspapers, eh?

Now that it’s Monday and we’re all back to, y’know, working to save newspapers (or just put them out every day), here’s how I’ve been staying sane lately:

Indexed: Most weekdays, a comical graph/chart on an [...]