Invisible Inkling

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

All About Media

If you think online news is difficult…

June 16, 2008 – 10:01 pm

If using a Web-based content management system is difficult, try putting together a print edition in an old version of Quark and then come back and tell me how hard it is to push the Publish button.
If editing video takes too long, then go back to developing your own prints in the darkroom.
If exploring the [...]

10 obvious things, one year later

June 4, 2008 – 4:35 pm

A year ago today, I published the most popular blog post I’ve ever written.
It’s a little counter-handwringing list meant to answer some of the frequently asked questions posed by Old Journalism.
So, a year later, here’s a quick take on where things stand:

It’s not Google’s fault: Score one for newspapers. I haven’t heard anyone [...]

Don’t even try to get that story on A1

June 3, 2008 – 7:14 am

Pullquote from a bit of morning reading at the Knight Digital Media Center’s News Leadership 3.0 blog:
“I once consulted at a well-respected metro newspaper where several writers told me they tried to avoid pitching their stories for the front page because the ’serial editing’ of these stories was such a hassle for them and damaging [...]

Carnival folo

May 28, 2008 – 7:05 am

Some of the best posts I see coming out of this past weekend’s Carnival of Journalism are drifting into the blogosphere after the fact, as folks not on deadline analyze what we prattled on about for a few grafs each, who did the prattling, and how to muster up some real temporal freedom in newsrooms.
Doug [...]

May Carnival of Journalism

May 23, 2008 – 2:47 pm

I’m jumping the gun on putting up this post to serve as the center ring for the May Carnival of Journalism.
Earlier today, I asked the list of carnivalers to consider answering this question at the core of driving innovation at mainstream news organizations:
What should news organizations stop doing, today, immediately, to make more time for [...]