Invisible Inkling

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

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The journalism program we’ve all been waiting for

May 24, 2007 – 8:27 pm

The Knight Foundation handed out some money today, notably to Henry Jenkins and company at MIT and Mr. Holovaty, who is getting plenty of press for his jump from WaPo to startup.
But just a little lower on the list, you’ll find the future in the form of a grant to the Medill J-School at Northwestern [...]

An informal poll on what I should learn next

March 10, 2007 – 3:44 pm

Here’s what I don’t know, no matter what it says on my resume: How to work in SQL and PHP from scratch, javascript, Django, Ruby, Flash, Illustrator, how to use maps APIs to code my own mashups, how to present databases online.

Job: Develop WordPress blogs for the New York Times

September 20, 2006 – 9:41 pm

[Ed. note: I normally stuff interesting job postings into the del.icio.us feed that runs down the right rail of this blog, or in your feed reader, but this one is too interesting not to point to from here.]
The New York Times is hiring a WordPress developer.
The job is posted on the PaidContent new media list, [...]

Geeks for journalism or journalism for geeks?

June 8, 2006 – 8:11 am

Lex Alexander, Greensboro News-Record citizen-journalism guru, in a post about a community meetup to talk about the paper’s online CJ section:
“We frequently get asked why we don’t do X, or whether we have ever thought about doing Y. Regarding Y, the answer is “probably.” But the N&R’s news department has an appetite for doing stuff [...]

Computer assisted reporting 2.0

June 8, 2006 – 7:53 am

Now that the SJSU J-School is cooking up a New Media class for next semester, which I’ve suggested should be mostly a practical lab for future online editors, it’s time to start thinking about the next step in revising the curriculum.
Which, of course, it’s not my job to do, but I haven’t let that stop [...]