Invisible Inkling

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

All About news-design

On print redesigns

June 24, 2008 – 7:20 am

Brothers and sisters in the print design world, you know I love you.
You bust your collective ass day after day to dress up content that may or may not be as award-winning as your design work, and in the end, you usually just get laid off for your troubles.  Because when management looks around that [...]

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 [...]

Is your newspaper.com is a big ball of mud?

September 17, 2007 – 7:37 am

Is your newspaper site a clean-looking, uniform grid of semantic (and validated!) code? Or is it a ‘big ball of mud,’ with includes (scotch tape) and javascript (bubble gum) holding together a jumble of disparate hunks of content?
If you answered ‘YES’ to the first question, congratulations, you work at the New York Times, or [...]

$100 million for e-paper firm - maybe you should start thinking about the future

January 8, 2007 – 9:19 pm

Red Herring reports a British e-paper company locked up $100 million in venture capital.
“The company plans to build the plant, with an initial capacity of a million displays a year, in the eastern Germany city of Dresden and start production in 2008. The company said demand for electronic readers is expected to climb to 41.6 [...]

The local follies: Finding the horizontal bonds in geographic communities

September 29, 2006 – 12:17 pm

[Ed. note: Yeah, so that post title sounds like a clever research paper title, which it could certainly be, if I had the time and the inclination.]
The Knight Foundation is giving away $25 million over five years to people like you with hyperlocal community news site ideas.
Now that I have your attention…
Online newspaper execs might [...]