Invisible Inkling

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

All About iraq

Citizen journalist killed in Iraq

December 15, 2007 – 10:03 pm

{ Those of us that were in the room during the ‘Video’ session at the Networked Journalism conference in October remember witnessing Brian Conley of Alive in Baghdad basically make a plea to anyone from the numerous large, profitable news organizations at the conference to help out the cause of citizen journalism in Iraq with [...]

Everybody’s Talking Heads

December 13, 2007 – 2:33 pm

I’ve seen David Byrne’s blog post about a visit to the New York Times in too many places today to figure out where I saw it first.
Here’s my favorite graf:
“At present, it is mostly the ads in the Style section, and the glossy Sunday and T magazines that pay for a disproportionate amount of the [...]

Salam Pax audio is online

April 21, 2006 – 2:12 pm

One of the Salam Pax talks in San Jose last month is now online as a Commonwealth Club podcast here. It looks like the audio will also be on KQED (88.5 FM in the Bay Area). You can find the story I wrote for the Daily on his talk at SJSU here.
An excerpt from [...]

Hey Iraq, mind if we write your newspapers for you? Thanks, Uncle Sam.

November 30, 2005 – 9:58 am

Today’s LA Times reports that “the U.S. military is secretly paying Iraqi newspapers to publish stories written by American troops in an effort to burnish the image of the U.S. mission in Iraq.”
Oh. Okay. So we talk and talk and talk about all the democracy we’re giving the Iraqis, but in the meantime, [...]