Invisible Inkling

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

All About online-news

Wired Journalists in Cedar Rapids weathered the floods

June 30, 2008 – 5:22 pm

Remember back awhile when I mentioned how some seriously wired journalists were bubbling up to the surface at WJ.com?
Yeah, I specifically called out Matt Neznanski and Jason Kristufek, didn’t I?
Here’s Matt interviewing Jason about running the online operations at the Cedar Rapids Gazette during the floods:
“Q: Had you already put into place a plan for [...]

If you think online news is difficult…

June 16, 2008 – 10:01 pm

If using a Web-based content management system is difficult, try putting together a print edition in an old version of Quark and then come back and tell me how hard it is to push the Publish button.
If editing video takes too long, then go back to developing your own prints in the darkroom.
If exploring the [...]

10 obvious things, one year later

June 4, 2008 – 4:35 pm

A year ago today, I published the most popular blog post I’ve ever written.
It’s a little counter-handwringing list meant to answer some of the frequently asked questions posed by Old Journalism.
So, a year later, here’s a quick take on where things stand:

It’s not Google’s fault: Score one for newspapers. I haven’t heard anyone [...]

Culture shock

April 12, 2008 – 10:27 pm

Trying to turn the tide of the decline of newspapers from the inside involves a great deal of evangelizing and pontificating and running through sets of common scenarios with folks who are still firmly planted in the Paper business rather than the News business.
That’s no surprise.
And it’s no surprise that top-down, do-it-this-way mandates don’t work [...]

Migration and alternate reads

April 5, 2008 – 6:45 am

I’ve been a little busy for the last week or so moving across the country, although going weeks between posts isn’t really anything new here, eh? As always, I’m posting to Twitter far more often than I could hope to blog here.
While I’m slammed with life and work busy-ness, please check out the following [...]