Invisible Inkling

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

All About j-school

Migration and alternate reads

April 5, 2008 – 6:45 am

I’ve been a little busy for the last week or so moving across the country, although going weeks between posts isn’t really anything new here, eh? As always, I’m posting to Twitter far more often than I could hope to blog here.
While I’m slammed with life and work busy-ness, please check out the following [...]

If it weren’t for those meddling Montana kids…

November 11, 2007 – 9:34 am

The funny thing about disruption and disintermediation is that you never see it coming if you’re the incumbent, the old school, the big slow mover lumbering into the future baby step by baby step.
Know what I mean?
Wes Eben, publisher of the Big Horn County News in Hardin, Montana knows what I mean. Well, he does [...]

Ahead of the game

October 27, 2007 – 7:09 am

Some journalism school students have reason to worry. They’re a few months away from graduating in 2008 with a print-and-A1-photo skillset circa 1988.
But five clips and a smile won’t get you much of a competitive edge these days in an increasingly crowded job market for reporters with straight-ahead text skills.
Mindy McAdams drives that point [...]

A few ways to teach the Pro side of Pro-Am Journalism to J-School students

October 10, 2007 – 9:36 am

Jay Rosen was just on stage talking about NewAssignment.net (see his lessons learned post at PressThink), and one thing that comes up is training on both the Pro and the Amateur side to smooth the process of writing/editing stories and gathering/parsing data.
So how can J-School students who need to learn these new skills (this would [...]

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.