Invisible Inkling

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

All About photojournalism

If you’re not playing, you’re just working.

Daniel Sato is one of a circle of photojournalists I met at San Jose State University while I was spending a lot of time there working on my (still-but-not-for-long) unfinished graduate degree.
Now that whole crew has spread out from the Bay Area across the country and in at least two cases, into Southeast Asia.
Here’s Daniel’s [...]

Spartan Love

Kyle Hansen is skipping town, headed for Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive to work with Rob Curley. The Spartan Daily’s loss is internology’s gain.

Another wonderful West Coast event I’m regretfully unable to attend - but you should

I promise, at some point next Fall, I will emerge from the land of the bisy backsons and start showing up for some of the really cool conferences and summits and conventions that the cool kids put together.
But for now, I’ll continue learning (and schmoozing) vicariously through those of you lucky enough to make it [...]

Kicking it East Coast style

No, not me. I’m still firmly planted a short walk from Monterey Bay, but a group of SJSU students spent Spring Break in the land known casually as Back East in these parts.

Newspaper Video: Who shoots it and how do they do it

The corner of the media blogosphere I hang out in has been buzzing with some great tips, clues, hints, debate, and analysis of newspaper video lately, and I’ve been too damn busy to chime in much, but here’s a few key pivot points for the uninitiated:
Who:

Photographers toting around HD cams to shoot video, record audio, [...]