Invisible Inkling

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

All About local-news

Why we don’t read your paper

June 25, 2008 – 1:30 pm

Tim Ball, in a post titled “Newspapers and why nobody reads them” writes:
“The problem for newspapers isn’t that I’m getting this information from another source. It’s that I don’t want it at all, and the local-local focus of metro newspapers in the last several years has made them not just less valuable to me, but [...]

Building a local news site from scratch

April 27, 2008 – 11:30 pm

[If you're reading this in late April 2008, I've managed to post something on time for this month's Carnival of Journalism, hosted by Yoni Greenbaum this time around.]
Lately, when failing revenues and/or an ill-fated JOA results in a newspaper closing up shop, there’s talk of “what if” they continued publishing online, but I have yet [...]

Mercury falling

March 5, 2008 – 9:52 am

[NOTE: What follows is a view of the last two years of trouble at the San Jose Mercury News from my personal point of view, as a graduate student in the neighborhood, a reporter (and later as an editor) working for the same parent company, and even as a reader. I don't pretend to [...]

Work with us, people

March 3, 2008 – 7:40 pm

GateHouse Media is hiring two reporters. Here’s the important bit from Boss Owens’ post on the matter:
The ideal candidate:

A recent college graduate (or graduating this spring)
At least six months experience blogging
Capable of shooting and editing his or her own video
Ready to do more than sit in an office and make [...]

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ReportingOn.com

January 4, 2008 – 9:21 pm

Thanks to everyone who noticed the pillow-soft launch of ReportingOn.com in the only link in my Resolutions post, and especially to those of you who commented, e-mailed, tweeted, or blogged about the project.
At the moment, it’s just an URL, an idea, and a comment thread, but it’s building momentum, and that’s pleasant.
A few thoughts:

I’m not [...]