Invisible Inkling

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

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Help a reporter out

March 19, 2008 – 9:03 pm

Peter Shankman launched something really, really interesting to me today at HelpAReporter.com.
The premise: He works in PR and has a list of reliable and credible sources a mile long; his reporter friends are constantly asking him who they should call about [your story topic here].
Check it out, sign up, and maybe you can help [...]

ReportingOn prototype mockup

February 9, 2008 – 9:42 pm

Just a glance of the mockup I built tonight.*
Click to enlarge…

This might give you an idea of how I’ve been imagining (and diagramming in mindmaps/on napkins) the structure of the site.
*(…in Coda, not Photoshop. HTML and CSS that I can build into a Drupal theme.)

Six questions about ReportingOn

February 9, 2008 – 10:01 am

Journalism.co.uk asked six questions about ReportingOn.
I answered them.
“4) Why are you doing this?
I saw a need to connect reporters to each other. So much local news lacks context, lacks a clear idea of where a local event fits into a larger trend, whether we’re talking about drunken driving or school funding or foreclosures.
Twitter has been [...]

ReportingOn 0.2: Connect with Twitter

January 14, 2008 – 8:01 pm

From the message I sent to members of the What Are You Reporting On? Facebook group yesterday:
The initial, humble little piece of integration with Twitter is live now at www.reportingon.com.
If you look at the right side of the page there, you’ll see a list of all the recent tweets sent to @reportingon. If you [...]

ReportingOn.com

January 4, 2008 – 9:21 pm

Thanks to everyone who noticed the pillow-soft launch of ReportingOn.com in the only link in my Resolutions post, and especially to those of you who commented, e-mailed, tweeted, or blogged about the project.
At the moment, it’s just an URL, an idea, and a comment thread, but it’s building momentum, and that’s pleasant.
A few thoughts:

I’m not [...]