Invisible Inkling

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

All About networked-journalism

Who’s your community site manager in the newsroom?

Questions I have coming out of the first session:

For newspapers with community sites, like Bakersfield and Raleigh, who is the go-to person in your newsroom for managing threads, policing comments, and general cheerleading for the site? Do you have a dedicated position leading it or is it rolled into other Web roles?
Is cloud-seeding on these [...]

@networked journalism summit

Finally in a room full of people I’ve been reading and tweeting and e-mailing and writing about and linking to and interviewing and misquoting and learning from for the last couple years.

Getting all networked up in New York City

I’ll be at tomorrow’s Networked Journalism Summit in beautiful scenic midtown Mannahatta tomorrow, completely amazed at the level of talent, skill and intelligence that will be around.
I plan to stare slackjawed at y’all like the upcountry yokel I am.
That’s not exactly true. I’m sure I’ll find something to talk about.
But I am particularly excited [...]

I don’t care what journalists are reading; I care what they’re writing

Scott Karp and friends (and those are some pretty smart friends) are up to something interesting, but I sure as heck can’t tell what it is based on a rambling post at the new publish2.com.
It sounds like something that’s supposed to clean up all the doubling and overlapping of social networks the media blogger scene [...]

Just the FAQs, please

Jeff Jarvis on the Local Challenge:
“The biggest challenge facing local news organizations today is figuring out how they can gather more and produce less. That is, how can they help other people produce, so the news organizations have something worth gathering?”
Gather more and produce less, indeed. It’s hard for lifelong newsroom types to see [...]