Invisible Inkling

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

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Notes on migrating three quarters of a mile

July 4, 2007 – 9:32 pm

So we moved. And by “moved,” I mean we loaded our stuff into a truck and drove less than a mile to an apartment with more space, less drunk people throwing up next to our bedroom window (so far), and far more sanity all around us.
The state of our new living room as of a [...]

Shifting priorities

May 10, 2007 – 8:38 am

If posting gets a little light around here, it’s because a few projects are working their way toward completion. One is nearly finished (more on that within the next few weeks) and another I just made a big change to get started on in earnest. There’s a third that’s on hold for a few [...]

What I’ve been working on all week

April 22, 2007 – 7:29 am

I’ve been working with a reporter for the last couple months to help him put together a set of multimedia projects to run with his centerpiece in today’s paper.
Here’s the proverbial fruits of our labor: two audio slideshows, a video, and a podcast, all complementing his print stories by taking us behind the numbers (standardized [...]

A progress report on the patient

April 4, 2007 – 9:11 pm

The laptop, that is.

Halloween debriefing

November 1, 2006 – 9:44 am

With all this talk about the Death of Newspapers going on and on and on, I started thinking, “What about the undead reporters?”

Best interview of the night?
Dick Cheney: He kept saying “It was a hunting accident, I swear.”
Then he pointed the plastic shotgun at me.
Video of all the chaos and skin that is Downtown [...]