Invisible Inkling

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

All About reporting

Howard Owens will give you $100 to get with the program

December 27, 2007 – 4:56 pm

That’s right, if you’re an ink-stained, hard-nosed reporter who thinks all this New Media stuff is bunk, Boss Owens has a hundred Amazon bucks with your name on ‘em.
If you perform a few small tasks, of course.
Like, start reading blogs, get a blog, start writing, shoot some stills and video, upload them, join a social [...]

Citizen journalist killed in Iraq

December 15, 2007 – 10:03 pm

{ Those of us that were in the room during the ‘Video’ session at the Networked Journalism conference in October remember witnessing Brian Conley of Alive in Baghdad basically make a plea to anyone from the numerous large, profitable news organizations at the conference to help out the cause of citizen journalism in Iraq with [...]

Twitter hints for reporters

December 13, 2007 – 8:20 pm

I saw a message on Twitter from Dave Cohn yesterday late in the afternoon that said he was set to interview Craig Newmark in 30 minutes. (Actually, I saw it 19 minutes after he posted it, so he was probably on the way out the door if not on the street when I replied.)
Today, Dave [...]

Meeting story hydraulics

November 6, 2007 – 8:40 pm

John Robinson, editor at the Greensboro News & Record, on stepping away from the “meeting story”:
“Welcome to the world of hard choices. It’s always been this way. We don’t cover everything. We don’t even cover what we used to. Newspaper staffs are getting smaller, yet the number of meetings and events, of commissions and government [...]

Seven notes, six links

November 1, 2007 – 9:51 pm

Hypothesis:
Dooce is (still) one of the best things on the Interweb.
Plea:
Jay Rosen has the beatblogging with a social network thing worked up pretty clearly at this point, but if the project doesn’t leave behind tools (a WordPress theme, a Drupal module, a useful set of forms — something more tangible than good ideas that [...]