Invisible Inkling

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

All About newspaper-blogs

10 blogs your newspaper needs to rip off

March 12, 2008 – 8:40 am

I’m making a short list of frequently updated news blogs published by mainstream news organizations that post breaking news and link out to other sources.
If you run a newspaper.com and you don’t have a blog like this to put together links and short updates, ask yourself why not.
These are all great examples of blogs that [...]

Giving your sources blogs cuts out the middleman

September 20, 2007 – 8:36 am

A few days ago, Dave Winer wrote:
“I’ve said it many times before, it’s worth raising again. Any newspaper or radio or TV station with a good reputation in its community could embrace the fresh ideas of the bloggers in their community by offering free blogs to members of the community, who may be new to [...]

A story that didn’t fit in the paper

June 8, 2007 – 9:03 pm

I was skimming Mark Glaser’s Jennifer Woodard Maderazo’s round-up of online mappety map goodness at MediaShift a minute ago when I saw a link to the LA Times crime blog Homicide Report and remembered that it was one I wanted to check in on as a reference point for something we’re taking about brewing up [...]

The easy route to online newspaper transparency

April 29, 2007 – 5:32 pm

Joe Murphy offers newspapers five ways to be a little less opaque online.
Basic things like disclosing conflicts of interest are easy enough, archiving corrections online can be more difficult, but my favorite element on this list, of course is #2, in which the Editor blogs:
“Start an editor’s blog, or ombudsman blog, or some blog written [...]

Newspaper blogs appear to be hitting the takeoff point, if they haven’t already

January 17, 2007 – 9:31 pm

It appears to be time for me to get back to doing some preliminary data gathering for my thesis in my spare time:
Web newspaper blog traffic triples in Dec.-study (via Reuters)
“Blog pages accounted for 13 percent of overall visits to newspaper sites in [December 2006], up from 4 percent a year earlier. Total visitors to [...]