Invisible Inkling

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

All About Media

Expand your media blogosphere today

May 9, 2008 – 8:22 am

Like many readers of blogs about the news business, I started big. As in, with the big guys, the heavy hitters, the bloggers who showed up in Romenesko and were hard to ignore. The Jays and Jeffs and Dans of the media blog world.
I’ve dramatically expanded my reading list since then, but meeting [...]

Building a local news site from scratch

April 27, 2008 – 11:30 pm

[If you're reading this in late April 2008, I've managed to post something on time for this month's Carnival of Journalism, hosted by Yoni Greenbaum this time around.]
Lately, when failing revenues and/or an ill-fated JOA results in a newspaper closing up shop, there’s talk of “what if” they continued publishing online, but I have yet [...]

Culture shock

April 12, 2008 – 10:27 pm

Trying to turn the tide of the decline of newspapers from the inside involves a great deal of evangelizing and pontificating and running through sets of common scenarios with folks who are still firmly planted in the Paper business rather than the News business.
That’s no surprise.
And it’s no surprise that top-down, do-it-this-way mandates don’t work [...]

How I have used the print edition, historically speaking

March 20, 2008 – 10:06 pm

My personal reasons for picking up an ink-on-paper newspaper, whether from off the lawn or the kitchen table or the newsstand or the stack in the newsroom. For reference purposes, I grew up in a household with a Miami Herald subscription, which explains the details of 4, 5, 7, 9 and 10 to some [...]

10 blogs your newspaper needs to rip off

March 12, 2008 – 8:40 am

I’m making a short list of frequently updated news blogs published by mainstream news organizations that post breaking news and link out to other sources.
If you run a newspaper.com and you don’t have a blog like this to put together links and short updates, ask yourself why not.
These are all great examples of blogs that [...]