Invisible Inkling

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

All About audience

Reader poll redux: Who are you?

November 18, 2007 – 4:33 pm

survey software - Take Our Poll
Let’s try this again, as the folks at PollDaddy say the lolcats have cleared out of the servers now.
Jump in and check a box to rough up some unscientific numbers on who is reading this blog.
Are you a pro journalist, a j-school student, a for-the-love-of-it blogger, a programmer, [...]

Mine, mine, it’s all mine!

August 30, 2007 – 9:54 pm

I want to save my favorite stories, right here, at your newspaper.com. Because really, what’s the sense in Digging a story about my neighborhood?

Enough handwringing, let’s get down to business

August 28, 2006 – 7:20 am

What’s the future of news? What does the audience want? What will the dead-trees edition be able to do about either?
Lately, it seems like these questions are brought up by newspaper editors and journalism educators fraught with worry over what will become of their medium and of their readership. (And the children! Won’t somebody please [...]

Two takes on the storypushing idea

July 26, 2006 – 5:46 am

…wherein the readers push the story ideas up the rankings until a pro journalist takes over to do some reporting on the topic and turns out an article…
So I was imagining this Digg-ish thing where readers would vote for story ideas, adding their own research and insight along the way, preferably with some data wherever [...]

The audience question

March 8, 2006 – 3:31 pm

At some point, I realized that someone other than my mother might actually be reading this blog. If we choose to accept that as a fact, then the following question presents itself pretty rapidly:
“Who the heck IS reading this?”
Please, don’t answer that just yet.
The real question, of course, is “Who am I writing this [...]