Invisible Inkling

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

All About Education

Spartan Love

August 16, 2007 – 10:56 pm

Kyle Hansen is skipping town, headed for Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive to work with Rob Curley. The Spartan Daily’s loss is internology’s gain.

Intern season means intern blog season

July 10, 2007 – 7:08 am

As much as I might wish for a blog intern, I’m talking about interns at your newspapers with blogs of their own (not someone I hired to read my feeds and post wittier-than-thou Tweets for $10/hour).
Let’s start out at a major metro in the west, where an SJSU student on the sports copy desk is [...]

The journalism program we’ve all been waiting for

May 24, 2007 – 8:27 pm

The Knight Foundation handed out some money today, notably to Henry Jenkins and company at MIT and Mr. Holovaty, who is getting plenty of press for his jump from WaPo to startup.
But just a little lower on the list, you’ll find the future in the form of a grant to the Medill J-School at Northwestern [...]

Kicking it East Coast style

April 6, 2007 – 6:29 am

No, not me. I’m still firmly planted a short walk from Monterey Bay, but a group of SJSU students spent Spring Break in the land known casually as Back East in these parts.

An informal poll on what I should learn next

March 10, 2007 – 3:44 pm

Here’s what I don’t know, no matter what it says on my resume: How to work in SQL and PHP from scratch, javascript, Django, Ruby, Flash, Illustrator, how to use maps APIs to code my own mashups, how to present databases online.