Invisible Inkling

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

All About layout

The new Las Vegas Sun is really, really good.

January 17, 2008 – 9:24 pm

Las Vegas Sun. Whoa.
I liked it a few days ago when I looked at the homepage and an article page or two, but I keep going back and it keeps growing on me.
Read Rob Curley’s rather informative take here, including the ridiculously constraining bits about the crazy JOA that makes the print edition of the [...]

Jerry Ceppos critiques the Spartan Daily

February 22, 2006 – 3:01 pm

Jerry Ceppos, former news executive at Knight Ridder, is in the middle of a series of guest lectures and conversations in classes here at the SJSU School of Journalism & Mass Communications.
Today, Ceppos is in the Spartan Daily newsroom, taking over the usual critique.
Highlights…

Make sure the stories in your paper connect to local readers. [...]

Blog templates, online newspaper layout, server issues

February 19, 2006 – 11:18 am

Jeff Jarvis laments the lack of creativity in blog templates.
It sounds like he’s looking for a front page with different categories, or a taste of different pages on the front page. I certainly like the idea - I know not everyone reading what I write about the JMC department or the Daily is necessarily [...]