Invisible Inkling

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

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Further notes on the new journalism skillset

February 5, 2007 – 9:32 pm

Andrew Venegas, a journalism student at San Jose State University, asks in comments:
“How many skills do you think an online editor/reporter needs? Is HTML and CSS enough? Do you need to know Flash, Photoshop and Premiere Pro as well? How about Sound Studio? All in all, working for the paper you do today, how much [...]

RateMyProfessors.com - the ultimate student media vertical?

January 30, 2007 – 8:00 am

Two weeks ago, a little business brief zipped across my workflow radar at the office - mtvU buys RateMyProfessors.com*.
For those of you keeping up with the college newspaper business, last summer, mtvU bought College Publisher, by far the largest hosting and CMS provider for online student media.
Now, the Viacom subsidiary adds RateMyProfessors to its stable.
Awesome [...]

More advice from Rob Curley

January 14, 2007 – 12:54 pm

If you’re an aspiring young (or not) journalist and you don’t have the good sense to pay attention to what Rob Curley says, I sort of feel sorry for you. That’s the truth, harsh as it may seem. Whenever guys like Curley or Holovaty or anyone else speaks up who has taken online [...]

Which newspaper will drop its print edition first?

December 30, 2006 – 9:26 am

Wired News prediction for 2007: “A major newspaper gives up printing on paper to publish exclusively online.”
Howard Owens doesn’t think so: “Ain’t happening. There’s still too much revenue tied up in print and not enough online. A major newspaper — I’m taking this to mean a major metro — couldn’t support it’s current news [...]

How would you create an online community at SJSU?

December 3, 2006 – 7:37 pm

Daniel Sato, online editor of the Spartan Daily student newspaper at San Jose State University, is trying to come up with a way to let readers vote their own stories up the charts, to tackle the twin problems of there being little sense of community at SJSU (online OR off, in my opinion) and organizations [...]