Invisible Inkling

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

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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 [...]

Don’t even try to get that story on A1

June 3, 2008 – 7:14 am

Pullquote from a bit of morning reading at the Knight Digital Media Center’s News Leadership 3.0 blog:
“I once consulted at a well-respected metro newspaper where several writers told me they tried to avoid pitching their stories for the front page because the ’serial editing’ of these stories was such a hassle for them and damaging [...]

Building a local news site from scratch

April 27, 2008 – 11:30 pm

[If you're reading this in late April 2008, I've managed to post something on time for this month's Carnival of Journalism, hosted by Yoni Greenbaum this time around.]
Lately, when failing revenues and/or an ill-fated JOA results in a newspaper closing up shop, there’s talk of “what if” they continued publishing online, but I have yet [...]

Five minutes with Peter Shankman of HelpAReporterOut.com

March 21, 2008 – 6:48 pm

I asked Peter Shankman a few easy questions today about his Help A Reporter Out project.
You can listen in or download the mp3 below.
(I recorded the call with cinch.blogtalkradio.com, for those of you keeping score at home.)

 
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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 [...]