Invisible Inkling

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

All About video

Five ways to innovate today

A colleague looking for a few new ways to integrate free Web services into his newsroom asked me to chip in with a list of five, so here they are. A note to student journalists: These are all free and easy ways to get something new and different online, and they probably serve a [...]

Two Google News workarounds

Rob comments at Lost Remote:
“I try to work around the Google News situation by posting almost all of our video content to YouTube. So far that’s one place where our content hasn’t been usurped by AP. We also are trying to blog breaking news - and sending automated updates to Technorati in the process - [...]

Bits and pieces of what I’ve been up to at work

As pointed out elsewhere, it’s no fair critiquing other people’s work without throwing some of my own out there, so here’s the short tour of what I’ve been working on:

Wild Life: The subject of the story shot the photos, the reporter recorded the audio, I produced the html/css page and the series of one-slide Soundslides.  [...]

Richard Koci Hernandez on being a multimedia shooter

The second part of Chris Jordan’s interview with Richard Koci Hernandez of the San Jose Mercury News is live at multimediashooter.com:
“The days of the one-talent journalist are over.”
“If I have to watch another three-minute soundslides…my head’s going to explode.”*
Richard gets deep into the shift from working as a solo photojournalist to collaborating with a team [...]

Newspaper Video: Who shoots it and how do they do it

The corner of the media blogosphere I hang out in has been buzzing with some great tips, clues, hints, debate, and analysis of newspaper video lately, and I’ve been too damn busy to chime in much, but here’s a few key pivot points for the uninitiated:
Who:

Photographers toting around HD cams to shoot video, record audio, [...]