Invisible Inkling

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

All About j-school

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 [...]

Wave your nerd flag high

June 27, 2007 – 7:41 am

Will Sullivan of Journerdism and the Palm Beach Post gets the Bryan Murley IM interview treatment over at Innovation in College Media.
In a wide-ranging interview (heh…) Sullivan offers a bit more advice than we usually get from his linkblogging, although the studied eye should be able to find the wisdom in the snark, as always.
Will’s [...]

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.

The obvious end of journalism schools?

March 24, 2007 – 1:21 pm

Dave Winer:
“First, reform journalism school. It’s too late to be training new journalists in the classic mode. Instead, journalism should become a required course, one or two semesters for every graduate. Why? Because journalism like everything else that used to be centralized is in the process of being distributed. In the future, every educated person [...]