Invisible Inkling

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

All About breaking news

Wired Journalists in Cedar Rapids weathered the floods

June 30, 2008 – 5:22 pm

Remember back awhile when I mentioned how some seriously wired journalists were bubbling up to the surface at WJ.com?
Yeah, I specifically called out Matt Neznanski and Jason Kristufek, didn’t I?
Here’s Matt interviewing Jason about running the online operations at the Cedar Rapids Gazette during the floods:
“Q: Had you already put into place a plan for [...]

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 [...]

How do you cover snow?

December 13, 2007 – 7:18 am

{In the spirit of this whole carnival atmosphere, I’m going to post links to my fellow circus acts as my mental and temporal bandwidth allow today.}
Yoni Greenbaum has some suggestions for how a local newspaper might bring readers into the fold when it comes to covering the weather. Apparently, Back East you people [...]

Map thyself

December 13, 2007 – 6:29 am

{Carnival! There’s a journalism blog carnival under way, hosted — if you can wrap your head around that concept — by the folks at Scribblesheet, some sort of collaborative writing tool I haven’t had a chance to look at yet. Here’s a review of their product at the Online Journalism Blog.}
I’ve written pretty [...]

Notes on breaking news

November 25, 2007 – 5:59 pm

Last June in the most popular post ever on this blog, I said this:
“You ignore new delivery systems at your own peril. RSS, SMS, iPhone, e-paper, Blackberry, widgets, podcasts, vlogs, Facebook, Twitter — these aren’t the competition, these are your new carriers. Learn how to deliver your content across every new technology that comes into [...]