Invisible Inkling

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

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Help a reporter out

March 19, 2008 – 9:03 pm

Peter Shankman launched something really, really interesting to me today at HelpAReporter.com.
The premise: He works in PR and has a list of reliable and credible sources a mile long; his reporter friends are constantly asking him who they should call about [your story topic here].
Check it out, sign up, and maybe you can help [...]

The good stuff is over there –>

February 24, 2008 – 10:05 pm

If you prefer my tweets and shared reader bits and delicious links to the infrequent and sometimes long-winded content here at what passes for a blog, click on through from that reader of yours and take a look at the right side of your screen. (Actually, let me check that in a few browsers first… [...]

Six questions about ReportingOn

February 9, 2008 – 10:01 am

Journalism.co.uk asked six questions about ReportingOn.
I answered them.
“4) Why are you doing this?
I saw a need to connect reporters to each other. So much local news lacks context, lacks a clear idea of where a local event fits into a larger trend, whether we’re talking about drunken driving or school funding or foreclosures.
Twitter has been [...]

ReportingOn 0.2: Connect with Twitter

January 14, 2008 – 8:01 pm

From the message I sent to members of the What Are You Reporting On? Facebook group yesterday:
The initial, humble little piece of integration with Twitter is live now at www.reportingon.com.
If you look at the right side of the page there, you’ll see a list of all the recent tweets sent to @reportingon. If you [...]

What’s this new Twitter thing I keep hearing about?

December 28, 2007 – 6:02 pm

It’s the Friday between Christmas and New Year’s in newsrooms all over the world, and apparently, everyone’s reading Romenesko, clicking through on the link to a post by Howard Owens (full disclosure, y’all: he’s my boss), and jamming on his link tagging me as a Twit-vangelist.
So, here are a few places to start if you [...]