Invisible Inkling

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

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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 [...]

Manifestology

December 13, 2007 – 10:52 am

{In the spirit of the journalism blog carnival, I’m linking to posts by some of my fellow barkers on display today as I have time.}
Pat Thornton lets fly with a manifesto + examples in “The Web is the greatest thing to ever happen to journalism.”
A clip:
“Go local - Many papers are adding more and more [...]

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 [...]