Invisible Inkling

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

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10 things I heard at the AEJMC convention today

August 3, 2006 – 7:40 pm

Let me tell you about my first time … at the AEJMC convention.
Seriously, I had never been to a conference or convention that was about my own field before today. I mean, I’ve hung out with the physicists and the photographers and maybe even the real estate data information professionals back when I was [...]

Computer assisted reporting 2.0

June 8, 2006 – 7:53 am

Now that the SJSU J-School is cooking up a New Media class for next semester, which I’ve suggested should be mostly a practical lab for future online editors, it’s time to start thinking about the next step in revising the curriculum.
Which, of course, it’s not my job to do, but I haven’t let that stop [...]

More talk about new media classes

June 6, 2006 – 12:28 pm

Steve Sloan has posted the second half of the Pizzacast, a discussion about a New Media class to be offered next semester in SJSU’s J-School.
I’m going to stand by my idea that this class should be a training ground for Online Editors going on to student media, in the way that the 133 Copy Editing [...]

How to get ahead in the newsroom

May 25, 2006 – 9:05 am

Steve Outing in E&P:
“What seems to be becoming the norm in newsrooms these days is that a growing group of reporters, photographers and editors are now working in jobs where there’s a wide variety of tasks to be done each day: feeding the newspaper’s Web site; writing for blogs and interacting with blog readers; gathering [...]

Pizzacasting for answers

May 24, 2006 – 8:11 am

I had an interesting time last night at the Pizzacast session. It was a small group with a wide range of interests (journalism, public relations, computer science, theater, business, aggregators), and the conversation ranged wildly from the on-topic question of what to teach in the upcoming New Media class at SJSU’s j-school, to some [...]