Invisible Inkling

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

All About newspaper-video

The best newspaper webcast I’ve seen yet: Ledger Live

August 21, 2008 – 5:51 pm

Remember that time when I spent two hours out of every day, five days a week, writing, shooting, and editing a daily newspaper webcast?
It stunk. It was no fun, a waste of time, and a poor way to engage online readers with video.
No one — and I mean no one — wants to watch you [...]

Five ways to produce online news without asking the web guy for help

October 7, 2007 – 6:07 am

You don’t know what it’s like for the web guy at a newspaper.
All day long, requests and ideas funnel in his direction, with no end in sight, and little help.
Web guys, this is for you.
Reporters, listen up. Here are five ways you can put together something wonderful for the web without asking the web [...]

The long tail is a newspaper video strategy

August 19, 2007 – 7:48 pm

Because I just can’t stay away from this topic…
Last time we talked about this, I wrote a post shooting down anyone who says we shouldn’t shoot newspaper video unless it’s top-quality stuff we’d, more or less, centerpiece on A1.
The responses from my friends in the multimedia blogosphere who shoot stills and video for a living [...]

Why shoot newspaper video?

August 13, 2007 – 8:01 am

Have I been over this ground before? Not sure. I think I’ve thrown around some adoption steps for newspaper video, and I’ve spouted all the necessary YMMV caveats for news organizations of varying resources.
But here’s the deal:
Not so far in the future, you’ll be sitting in a conference room trying to show a group of [...]

Wave your nerd flag high

June 27, 2007 – 7:41 am

Will Sullivan of Journerdism and the Palm Beach Post gets the Bryan Murley IM interview treatment over at Innovation in College Media.
In a wide-ranging interview (heh…) Sullivan offers a bit more advice than we usually get from his linkblogging, although the studied eye should be able to find the wisdom in the snark, as always.
Will’s [...]