Invisible Inkling

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

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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 [...]

New Media class at SJSU

August 22, 2006 – 10:35 am

Journalism 163, taught by Steve Sloan and Cynthia McCune (at least one section - are there others?), opens for business at SJSU this week. It’s hard to give this thing a name, and I don’t want to contribute any more than I already have to the handwringing and head-scratching over what it should be, [...]

Will the real newspaper video model please stand up

July 30, 2006 – 9:21 am

What kind of video do you want in your online newspaper?
Broadcast-style stand-ups? Afternoon reports from the newsroom? Snarky into the camera videoblogs from your columnists? Straight news packages?
Mindy McAdams at Teaching Online Journalism has been talking about this all month, drilling down on things like the fancy new HD cameras that will [...]

More talk about new media classes

June 6, 2006 – 12:28 pm

Steve Sloan has posted the second half of the Pizzacast, a discussion about a New Media class to be offered next semester in SJSU’s J-School.
I’m going to stand by my idea that this class should be a training ground for Online Editors going on to student media, in the way that the 133 Copy Editing [...]

Pizzacasting for answers

May 24, 2006 – 8:11 am

I had an interesting time last night at the Pizzacast session. It was a small group with a wide range of interests (journalism, public relations, computer science, theater, business, aggregators), and the conversation ranged wildly from the on-topic question of what to teach in the upcoming New Media class at SJSU’s j-school, to some [...]