Invisible Inkling

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

All About news-organization

Don’t even try to get that story on A1

June 3, 2008 – 7:14 am

Pullquote from a bit of morning reading at the Knight Digital Media Center’s News Leadership 3.0 blog:
“I once consulted at a well-respected metro newspaper where several writers told me they tried to avoid pitching their stories for the front page because the ’serial editing’ of these stories was such a hassle for them and damaging [...]

Carnival folo

May 28, 2008 – 7:05 am

Some of the best posts I see coming out of this past weekend’s Carnival of Journalism are drifting into the blogosphere after the fact, as folks not on deadline analyze what we prattled on about for a few grafs each, who did the prattling, and how to muster up some real temporal freedom in newsrooms.
Doug [...]

May Carnival of Journalism

May 23, 2008 – 2:47 pm

I’m jumping the gun on putting up this post to serve as the center ring for the May Carnival of Journalism.
Earlier today, I asked the list of carnivalers to consider answering this question at the core of driving innovation at mainstream news organizations:
What should news organizations stop doing, today, immediately, to make more time for [...]

Modernize your newsroom today

January 14, 2008 – 9:37 am

Many employees at news organizations have a very easy time blaming out-of-date computers, front-end print publishing systems, and Web content management systems on such faceless, amorphous entities as “Corporate,” or perhaps “The Budget.”
Nevertheless, there are plenty of free or not-completely-expensive ways you can modernize your newsroom today.
Here are 5.

Use Google Documents (or any one of [...]

Your real competition

January 11, 2008 – 6:27 am

You *think* your competition is the guy at the TV station who always rip-and-reads your stories, or the reporter on your beat at the major metro from the big city 12 miles away, or that alt-weekly with the nasty cartoonist, don’t you?
Sorry, but that’s simply not the case.
Oh, sure, your ad reps and their [...]