Invisible Inkling

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

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Reader poll redux: Who are you?

November 18, 2007 – 4:33 pm

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Let’s try this again, as the folks at PollDaddy say the lolcats have cleared out of the servers now.
Jump in and check a box to rough up some unscientific numbers on who is reading this blog.
Are you a pro journalist, a j-school student, a for-the-love-of-it blogger, a programmer, [...]

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 [...]

The sky is not falling

June 4, 2007 – 9:41 pm

From the Columbia Journalism Review comes a short note taking “A Long View on Layoffs.”
For those looking for some comfort in numbers, rest assured that there appear to be plenty of working journalists left around here somewhere. The CJR piece runs down some long-term employment statistics and then turns loose some of Wilson Lowrey’s ideas.
I [...]

Wired is hiring tech business bloggers

March 29, 2007 – 6:53 am

If I were a young, fresh out of j-school, Bay Area journalist interested in technology and business, I’d be applying for this job at Wired in a big hurry.
Heck, even if I were still in school, I’d probably write something up and send it in — or better yet, post it on my own blog [...]

Further notes on the new journalism skillset

February 5, 2007 – 9:32 pm

Andrew Venegas, a journalism student at San Jose State University, asks in comments:
“How many skills do you think an online editor/reporter needs? Is HTML and CSS enough? Do you need to know Flash, Photoshop and Premiere Pro as well? How about Sound Studio? All in all, working for the paper you do today, how much [...]