Invisible Inkling

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

All About higher-education

Must-read post for journalism school students and faculty members - YES, YOU.

January 13, 2007 – 11:46 am

Mindy McAdams, online journalism prof at the University of Florida, writes this plea to J-Schools: Getting (and keeping) a job in journalism.
Highlight:
“If a student in a j-school today thinks it is okay NOT to learn how to make Web pages, NOT to shoot video, NOT to gather audio, NOT to read and write blogs — [...]

That Master of Science degree I’m working on looks pretty good right about now

August 7, 2006 – 6:20 am

Lots of uplifting statistics in the latest Grady College/University of Georgia survey of j-school graduates, but my favorite is the part about how much grad students are making out of the gate:
“Master’s degree recipients in 2005 reported a median salary of $37,000, up from $33,000 in 2004. The 2005 figure was the highest reported going [...]

Search drives serendipity, a continuing conversation

July 31, 2006 – 8:19 pm

[Ed. note: This is the text of an e-mail I sent in reply to a comment a J-School professor from the University of Florida left on a post from a couple months ago regarding Serendipity on the Web. Part of his reply is posted at the end of this post.]
Hi Prof. McKeen -
Thanks for your [...]

Blog research at the AEJMC convention

July 28, 2006 – 9:03 am

For next week’s trick, I’ll be both a reporter and a student at the AEJMC convention. I’m planning on showing up Thursday morning to the citizen journalism session and later in the day for the “What’s Next for Newspapers and for Journalism Education? - A Continuing Discussion” session.
Of course, I might want to duck into [...]

This year’s big “duh”

March 17, 2006 – 12:06 pm

Last year, the big “duh” was the raging irrational debate over whether blogs were journalism.
Answer? If you write journalism, it’s journalism. If you record journalism, it’s journalism. Doesn’t matter what medium you choose to display it in, doesn’t matter if you’re the San Jose Mercury News or Grade the News or Rocketboom — [...]