Invisible Inkling

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

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SJSU blogger shout out time

April 16, 2006 – 8:17 am

There are a bunch of bloggers these days in the SJSU journalism program, and although I don’t regularly point out the ones who aren’t writing about media much, I do catch plenty of what they write in the feed vacuum known as my aggregator.
So without further preamble…
Andrew the “Soapbox Prophet” hasn’t posted since before Spring [...]

A quick riff on objectivity

April 13, 2006 – 8:58 am

I’m not going to go at length about the End of Objectivity, or even the perils of objectivity, although I should get around to posting a little literature review and presentation I wrote on the topic awhile back.
But here’s a good concrete example of how awkward it can be sometimes to include “both” sides of [...]

Talking points for a visit to Journalism 132

April 12, 2006 – 11:30 am

[I'm sitting in on Prof. Greene's information gathering classes this morning...]
Hi everyone. I’m supposed to be providing some constructive criticism on your blog posts, but the odds are pretty good that I’ll be going off on a tangent or three, so here are links to a few things I figure I’ll be rambling on [...]

A pair of photojournalism events at SJSU

April 11, 2006 – 10:27 am

If you’re a photojournalist, an art photographer, or a J-School student interested in multimedia journalism, you should check out Dai Sugano’s talk Thursday April 13th at an SJSU NPPA event.
Sugano shoots for the San Jose Mercury News and works on a small team of photographers, editors, and web producers putting together multimedia presentations at [...]

Looking for jobs in all the right places

March 28, 2006 – 10:10 am

Every j-school student knows about sites like Journalism Jobs and Craig’s List, but have you ever searched for gigs on Simply Hired, Beyond, or PageBites?
Luckily, you don’t have to.
Instead, try using the gada.be search engine.
Go to gada.be, enter what you’re looking for in the search box, and click on “Jobs.”
Here’s a results page for a [...]